1  
   2          NEWS file for libxml2
   3  
   4    Note that this is automatically generated from the news webpage at:
   5         http://xmlsoft.org/news.html
   6  
   7  The change log at 
   8  ChangeLog.html
   9   describes the recents commits
  10  to the GIT at 
  11  http://git.gnome.org/browse/libxml2/
  12   code base.Here is the list of public releases:
  13  2.9.2: Oct 16 2014:
  14     - Security:
  15    Fix for CVE-2014-3660 billion laugh variant (Daniel Veillard),
  16    CVE-2014-0191 Do not fetch external parameter entities (Daniel Veillard)
  17    
  18     - Bug Fixes:
  19    fix memory leak xml header encoding field with XML_PARSE_IGNORE_ENC (Bart De Schuymer),
  20    xmlmemory: handle realloc properly (Yegor Yefremov),
  21    Python generator bug raised by the const change (Daniel Veillard),
  22    Windows Critical sections not released correctly (Daniel Veillard),
  23    Parser error on repeated recursive entity expansion containing < (Daniel Veillard),
  24    xpointer : fixing Null Pointers (Gaurav Gupta),
  25    Remove Unnecessary Null check in xpointer.c (Gaurav Gupta),
  26    parser bug on misformed namespace attributes (Dennis Filder),
  27    Pointer dereferenced before null check (Daniel Veillard),
  28    Leak of struct addrinfo in xmlNanoFTPConnect() (Gaurav Gupta),
  29    Possible overflow in HTMLParser.c (Daniel Veillard),
  30    python/tests/sync.py assumes Python dictionaries are ordered (John Beck),
  31    Fix Enum check and missing break (Gaurav Gupta),
  32    xmlIO: Handle error returns from dup() (Philip Withnall),
  33    Fix a problem properly saving URIs (Daniel Veillard),
  34    wrong error column in structured error when parsing attribute values (Juergen Keil),
  35    wrong error column in structured error when skipping whitespace in xml decl (Juergen Keil),
  36    no error column in structured error handler for xml schema validation errors (Juergen Keil),
  37    Couple of Missing Null checks (Gaurav Gupta),
  38    Add couple of missing Null checks (Daniel Veillard),
  39    xmlschemastypes: Fix potential array overflow (Philip Withnall),
  40    runtest: Fix a memory leak on parse failure (Philip Withnall),
  41    xmlIO: Fix an FD leak on gzdopen() failure (Philip Withnall),
  42    xmlcatalog: Fix a memory leak on quit (Philip Withnall),
  43    HTMLparser: Correctly initialise a stack allocated structure (Philip Withnall),
  44    Check for tmon in _xmlSchemaDateAdd() is incorrect (David Kilzer),
  45    Avoid Possible Null Pointer in trio.c (Gaurav Gupta),
  46    Fix processing in SAX2 in case of an allocation failure (Daniel Veillard),
  47    XML Shell command "cd" does not handle "/" at end of path (Daniel Veillard),
  48    Fix various Missing Null checks (Gaurav Gupta),
  49    Fix a potential NULL dereference (Daniel Veillard),
  50    Add a couple of misisng check in xmlRelaxNGCleanupTree (Gaurav Gupta),
  51    Add a missing argument check (Gaurav Gupta),
  52    Adding a check in case of allocation error (Gaurav Gupta),
  53    xmlSaveUri() incorrectly recomposes URIs with rootless paths (Dennis Filder),
  54    Adding some missing NULL checks (Gaurav),
  55    Fixes for xmlInitParserCtxt (Daniel Veillard),
  56    Fix regressions introduced by CVE-2014-0191 patch (Daniel Veillard),
  57    erroneously ignores a validation error if no error callback set (Daniel Veillard),
  58    xmllint was not parsing the --c14n11 flag (Sérgio Batista),
  59    Avoid Possible null pointer dereference in memory debug mode (Gaurav),
  60    Avoid Double Null Check (Gaurav),
  61    Restore context size and position after XPATH_OP_ARG (Nick Wellnhofer),
  62    Fix xmlParseInNodeContext() if node is not element (Daniel Veillard),
  63    Avoid a possible NULL pointer dereference (Gaurav),
  64    Fix xmlTextWriterWriteElement when a null content is given (Daniel Veillard),
  65    Fix an typo 'onrest' in htmlScriptAttributes (Daniel Veillard),
  66    fixing a ptotential uninitialized access (Daniel Veillard),
  67    Fix an fd leak in an error case (Daniel Veillard),
  68    Missing initialization for the catalog module (Daniel Veillard),
  69    Handling of XPath function arguments in error case (Nick Wellnhofer),
  70    Fix a couple of missing NULL checks (Gaurav),
  71    Avoid a possibility of dangling encoding handler (Gaurav),
  72    Fix HTML push parser to accept HTML_PARSE_NODEFDTD (Arnold Hendriks),
  73    Fix a bug loading some compressed files (Mike Alexander),
  74    Fix XPath node comparison bug (Gaurav),
  75    Type mismatch in xmlschemas.c (Gaurav),
  76    Type mismatch in xmlschemastypes.c (Gaurav),
  77    Avoid a deadcode in catalog.c (Daniel Veillard),
  78    run close socket on Solaris, same as we do on other platforms (Denis Pauk),
  79    Fix pointer dereferenced before null check (Gaurav),
  80    Fix a potential NULL dereference in tree code (Daniel Veillard),
  81    Fix potential NULL pointer dereferences in regexp code (Gaurav),
  82    xmllint --pretty crashed without following numeric argument (Tim Galeckas),
  83    Fix XPath expressions of the form '@ns:*' (Nick Wellnhofer),
  84    Fix XPath '//' optimization with predicates (Nick Wellnhofer),
  85    Clear up a potential NULL dereference (Daniel Veillard),
  86    Fix a possible NULL dereference (Gaurav),
  87    Avoid crash if allocation fails (Daniel Veillard),
  88    Remove occasional leading space in XPath number formatting (Daniel Veillard),
  89    Fix handling of mmap errors (Daniel Veillard),
  90    Catch malloc error and exit accordingly (Daniel Veillard),
  91    missing else in xlink.c (Ami Fischman),
  92    Fix a parsing bug on non-ascii element and CR/LF usage (Daniel Veillard),
  93    Fix a regression in xmlGetDocCompressMode() (Daniel Veillard),
  94    properly quote the namespace uris written out during c14n (Aleksey Sanin),
  95    Remove premature XInclude check on URI being relative (Alexey Neyman),
  96    Fix missing break on last() function for attributes (dcb),
  97    Do not URI escape in server side includes (Romain Bondue),
  98    Fix an error in xmlCleanupParser (Alexander Pastukhov)
  99    
 100     - Documentation:
 101    typo in error messages "colon are forbidden from..." (Daniel Veillard),
 102    Fix a link to James SAX documentation old page (Daniel Veillard),
 103    Fix typos in relaxng.c (Jan Pokorný),
 104    Fix a doc typo (Daniel Veillard),
 105    Fix typos in {tree,xpath}.c (errror) (Jan Pokorný),
 106    Add limitations about encoding conversion (Daniel Veillard),
 107    Fix typos in xmlschemas{,types}.c (Jan Pokorný),
 108    Fix incorrect spelling entites->entities (Jan Pokorný),
 109    Forgot to document 2.9.1 release, regenerate docs (Daniel Veillard)
 110    
 111     - Portability:
 112    AC_CONFIG_FILES and executable bit (Roumen Petrov),
 113    remove HAVE_CONFIG_H dependency in testlimits.c (Roumen Petrov),
 114    fix some tabs mixing incompatible with python3 (Roumen Petrov),
 115    Visual Studio 14 CTP defines snprintf() (Francis Dupont),
 116    OS400: do not try to copy unexisting doc files (Patrick Monnerat),
 117    OS400: use either configure.ac or configure.in. (Patrick Monnerat),
 118    os400: make-src.sh: create physical file with target CCSID (Patrick Monnerat),
 119    OS400: Add some more C macros equivalent procedures. (Patrick Monnerat),
 120    OS400: use C macros to implement equivalent RPG support procedures. (Patrick Monnerat),
 121    OS400: implement XPath macros as procedures for ILE/RPG support. (Patrick Monnerat),
 122    OS400: include in distribution tarball. (Patrick Monnerat),
 123    OS400: Add README: compilation directives and OS/400 specific stuff. (Patrick Monnerat),
 124    OS400: Add compilation scripts. (Patrick Monnerat),
 125    OS400: ILE RPG language header files. (Patrick Monnerat),
 126    OS400: implement some macros as functions for ILE/RPG language support (that as no macros). (Patrick Monnerat),
 127    OS400: UTF8<-->EBCDIC wrappers for system and external library calls (Patrick Monnerat),
 128    OS400: Easy character transcoding support (Patrick Monnerat),
 129    OS400: iconv functions compatibility wrappers and table builder. (Patrick Monnerat),
 130    OS400: create architecture directory. Implement dlfcn emulation. (Patrick Monnerat),
 131    Fix building when configuring without xpath and xptr (Daniel Veillard),
 132    configure: Add --with-python-install-dir (Jonas Eriksson),
 133    Fix compilation with minimum and xinclude. (Nicolas Le Cam),
 134    Compile out use of xmlValidateNCName() when not available. (Nicolas Le Cam),
 135    Fix compilation with minimum and schematron. (Nicolas Le Cam),
 136    Legacy needs xmlSAX2StartElement() and xmlSAX2EndElement(). (Nicolas Le Cam),
 137    Don't use xmlValidateName() when not available. (Nicolas Le Cam),
 138    Fix a portability issue on Windows (Longstreth Jon),
 139    Various portability patches for OpenVMS (Jacob (Jouk) Jansen),
 140    Use specific macros for portability to OS/400 (Patrick Monnerat),
 141    Add macros needed for OS/400 portability (Patrick Monnerat),
 142    Portability patch for fopen on OS/400 (Patrick Monnerat),
 143    Portability fixes for OS/400 (Patrick Monnerat),
 144    Improve va_list portability (Patrick Monnerat),
 145    Portability fix (Patrick Monnerat),
 146    Portability fix (Patrick Monnerat),
 147    Generic portability fix (Patrick Monnerat),
 148    Shortening lines in headers (Patrick Monnerat),
 149    build: Use pkg-config to find liblzma in preference to AC_CHECK_LIB (Philip Withnall),
 150    build: Add @LZMA_LIBS@ to libxml’s pkg-config files (Philip Withnall),
 151    fix some tabs mixing incompatible with python3 (Daniel Veillard),
 152    add additional defines checks for support "./configure --with-minimum" (Denis Pauk),
 153    Another round of fixes for older versions of Python (Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis),
 154    python: fix drv_libxml2.py for python3 compatibility (Alexandre Rostovtsev),
 155    python: Fix compiler warnings when building python3 bindings (Armin K),
 156    Fix for compilation with python 2.6.8 (Petr Sumbera)
 157    
 158     - Improvements:
 159    win32/libxml2.def.src after rebuild in doc (Roumen Petrov),
 160    elfgcchack.h: more legacy needs xmlSAX2StartElement() and xmlSAX2EndElement() (Roumen Petrov),
 161    elfgcchack.h: add xmlXPathNodeEval and xmlXPathSetContextNode (Roumen Petrov),
 162    Provide cmake module (Samuel Martin),
 163    Fix a couple of issues raised by make dist (Daniel Veillard),
 164    Fix and add const qualifiers (Kurt Roeckx),
 165    Preparing for upcoming release of 2.9.2 (Daniel Veillard),
 166    Fix zlib and lzma libraries check via command line (Dmitriy),
 167    wrong error column in structured error when parsing end tag (Juergen Keil),
 168    doc/news.html: small update to avoid line join while generating NEWS. (Patrick Monnerat),
 169    Add methods for python3 iterator (Ron Angeles),
 170    Support element node traversal in document fragments. (Kyle VanderBeek),
 171    xmlNodeSetName: Allow setting the name to a substring of the currently set name (Tristan Van Berkom),
 172    Added macros for argument casts (Eric Zurcher),
 173    adding init calls to xml and html Read parsing entry points (Daniel Veillard),
 174    Get rid of 'REPLACEMENT CHARACTER' Unicode chars in xmlschemas.c (Jan Pokorný),
 175    Implement choice for name classes on attributes (Shaun McCance),
 176    Two small namespace tweaks (Daniel Veillard),
 177    xmllint --memory should fail on empty files (Daniel Veillard),
 178    Cast encoding name to char pointer to match arg type (Nikolay Sivov)
 179    
 180     - Cleanups:
 181    Removal of old configure.in (Daniel Veillard),
 182    Unreachable code in tree.c (Gaurav Gupta),
 183    Remove a couple of dead conditions (Gaurav Gupta),
 184    Avoid some dead code and cleanup in relaxng.c (Gaurav),
 185    Drop not needed checks (Denis Pauk),
 186    Fix a wrong test (Daniel Veillard)
 187    
 188  
 189  
 190  2.9.1: Apr 19 2013:
 191     -  Features:
 192      Support for Python3 (Daniel Veillard),
 193      Add xmlXPathSetContextNode and xmlXPathNodeEval (Alex Bligh)
 194    
 195     -  Documentation:
 196      Add documentation for xmllint --xpath (Daniel Veillard),
 197      Fix the URL of the SAX documentation from James (Daniel Veillard),
 198      Fix spelling of "length". (Michael Wood)
 199    
 200     -  Portability:
 201      Fix python bindings with versions older than 2.7 (Daniel Veillard),
 202      rebuild docs:Makefile.am (Roumen Petrov),
 203      elfgcchack.h after rebuild in doc (Roumen Petrov),
 204      elfgcchack for buf module (Roumen Petrov),
 205      Fix a uneeded and wrong extra link parameter (Daniel Veillard),
 206      Few cleanup patches for Windows (Denis Pauk),
 207      Fix rpmbuild --nocheck (Mark Salter),
 208      Fix for win32/configure.js and WITH_THREAD_ALLOC (Daniel Richard),
 209      Fix Broken multi-arch support in xml2-config (Daniel Veillard),
 210      Fix a portability issue for GCC < 3.4.0 (Daniel Veillard),
 211      Windows build fixes (Daniel Richard),
 212      Fix a thread portability problem (Friedrich Haubensak),
 213      Downgrade autoconf requirement to 2.63 (Daniel Veillard)
 214    
 215     -  Bug Fixes:
 216      Fix a linking error for python bindings (Daniel Veillard),
 217      Fix a couple of return without value (Jüri Aedla),
 218      Improve the hashing functions (Daniel Franke),
 219      Improve handling of xmlStopParser() (Daniel Veillard),
 220      Remove risk of lockup in dictionary initialization (Daniel Veillard),
 221      Activate detection of encoding in external subset (Daniel Veillard),
 222      Fix an output buffer flushing conversion bug (Mikhail Titov),
 223      Fix an old bug in xmlSchemaValidateOneElement (Csaba László),
 224      Fix configure cannot remove messages (Gilles Espinasse),
 225      fix schema validation in combination with xsi:nil (Daniel Veillard),
 226      xmlCtxtReadFile doesn't work with literal IPv6 URLs (Steve Wolf),
 227      Fix a few problems with setEntityLoader (Alexey Neyman),
 228      Detect excessive entities expansion upon replacement (Daniel Veillard),
 229      Fix the flushing out of raw buffers on encoding conversions (Daniel,
 230  Veillard),
 231      Fix some buffer conversion issues (Daniel Veillard),
 232      When calling xmlNodeDump make sure we grow the buffer quickly (Daniel,
 233  Veillard),
 234      Fix an error in the progressive DTD parsing code (Dan Winship),
 235      xmllint should not load DTD by default when using the reader (Daniel,
 236  Veillard),
 237      Try IBM-037 when looking for EBCDIC handlers (Petr Sumbera),
 238      Fix potential out of bound access (Daniel Veillard),
 239      Fix large parse of file from memory (Daniel Veillard),
 240      Fix a bug in the nsclean option of the parser (Daniel Veillard),
 241      Fix a regression in 2.9.0 breaking validation while streaming (Daniel,
 242  Veillard),
 243      Remove potential calls to exit() (Daniel Veillard)
 244    
 245     -  Improvements:
 246      Regenerated API, and testapi, rebuild documentation (Daniel Veillard),
 247      Fix tree iterators broken by 2to3 script (Daniel Veillard),
 248      update all tests for Python3 and Python2 (Daniel Veillard),
 249      A few more fixes for python 3 affecting libxml2.py (Daniel Veillard),
 250      Fix compilation on Python3 (Daniel Veillard),
 251      Converting apibuild.py to python3 (Daniel Veillard),
 252      First pass at starting porting to python3 (Daniel Veillard),
 253      updated configure.in for python3 (Daniel Veillard),
 254      Add support for xpathRegisterVariable in Python (Shaun McCance),
 255      Added a regression tests from bug 694228 data (Daniel Veillard),
 256      Cache presence of '<' in entities content (Daniel Veillard),
 257      Avoid extra processing on entities (Daniel Veillard),
 258      Python binding for xmlRegisterInputCallback (Alexey Neyman),
 259      Python bindings: DOM casts everything to xmlNode (Alexey Neyman),
 260      Define LIBXML_THREAD_ALLOC_ENABLED via xmlversion.h (Tim Starling),
 261      Adding streaming validation to runtest checks (Daniel Veillard),
 262      Add a --pushsmall option to xmllint (Daniel Veillard)
 263    
 264     -  Cleanups:
 265      Switched comment in file to UTF-8 encoding (Daniel Veillard),
 266      Extend gitignore (Daniel Veillard),
 267      Silent the new python test on input (Alexey Neyman),
 268      Cleanup of a duplicate test (Daniel Veillard),
 269      Cleanup on duplicate test expressions (Daniel Veillard),
 270      Fix compiler warning after 153cf15905cf4ec080612ada6703757d10caba1e (Patrick,
 271  Gansterer),
 272      Spec cleanups and a fix for multiarch support (Daniel Veillard),
 273      Silence a clang warning (Daniel Veillard),
 274      Cleanup the Copyright to be pure MIT Licence wording (Daniel Veillard),
 275      rand_seed should be static in dict.c (Wouter Van Rooy),
 276      Fix typos in parser comments (Jan Pokorný)
 277    
 278  
 279  
 280  2.9.0: Sep 11 2012:
 281     -  Features:
 282      A few new API entry points,
 283      More resilient push parser mode,
 284      A lot of portability improvement,
 285      Faster XPath evaluation
 286    
 287     -  Documentation:
 288      xml2-config.1 markup error (Christian Weisgerber),
 289      libxml(3) manpage typo fix (John Bradshaw),
 290      More cleanups to the documentation part of libxml2 (Daniel Richard G)
 291    
 292     -  Portability:
 293      Bug 676544 - fails to build with --without-sax1 (Akira TAGOH),
 294      fix builds not having stdint.h (Rob Richards),
 295      GetProcAddressA is available only on WinCE (Daniel Veillard),
 296      More updates and cleanups on autotools and Makefiles (Daniel Richard G),
 297      More changes for Win32 compilation (Eric Zurcher),
 298      Basic changes for Win32 builds of release 2.9.0: compile buf.c (Eric Zurcher),
 299      Bundles all generated files for python into the distribution (Daniel Richard G),
 300      Fix compiler warnings of wincecompat.c (Patrick Gansterer),
 301      Fix non __GNUC__ build (Patrick Gansterer),
 302      Fix windows unicode build (Patrick Gansterer),
 303      clean redefinition of {v}snprintf in C-source (Roumen Petrov),
 304      use xmlBuf... if DEBUG_INPUT is defined (Roumen Petrov),
 305      fix runtests to use pthreads support for various Unix platforms (Daniel Richard G),
 306      Various "make distcheck" and portability fixups 2nd part (Daniel Richard G),
 307      Various "make distcheck" and portability fixups (Daniel Richard G),
 308      Fix compilation on older Visual Studio (Daniel Veillard)
 309    
 310     -  Bug Fixes:
 311      Change the XPath code to percolate allocation errors (Daniel Veillard),
 312      Fix reuse of xmlInitParser (Daniel Veillard),
 313      Fix potential crash on entities errors (Daniel Veillard),
 314      initialize var (Rob Richards),
 315      Fix the XPath arity check to also check the XPath stack limits (Daniel Veillard),
 316      Fix problem with specific and generic error handlers (Pietro Cerutti),
 317      Avoid a potential infinite recursion (Daniel Veillard),
 318      Fix an XSD error when generating internal automata (Daniel Veillard),
 319      Patch for xinclude of text using multibyte characters (Vitaly Ostanin),
 320      Fix a segfault on XSD validation on pattern error (Daniel Veillard),
 321      Fix missing xmlsave.h module which was ignored in recent builds (Daniel Veillard),
 322      Add a missing element check (Daniel Veillard),
 323      Adding various checks on node type though the API (Daniel Veillard),
 324      Namespace nodes can't be unlinked with xmlUnlinkNode (Daniel Veillard),
 325      Fix make dist to include new private header files (Daniel Veillard),
 326      More fixups on the push parser behaviour (Daniel Veillard),
 327      Strengthen behaviour of the push parser in problematic situations (Daniel Veillard),
 328      Enforce XML_PARSER_EOF state handling through the parser (Daniel Veillard),
 329      Fixup limits parser (Daniel Veillard),
 330      Do not fetch external parsed entities (Daniel Veillard),
 331      Fix an error in previous commit (Aron Xu),
 332      Fix entities local buffers size problems (Daniel Veillard),
 333      Fix parser local buffers size problems (Daniel Veillard),
 334      Fix a failure to report xmlreader parsing failures (Daniel Veillard)
 335    
 336     -  Improvements:
 337      Keep libxml2.syms when running "make distclean" (Daniel Veillard),
 338      Allow to set the quoting character of an xmlWriter (Csaba Raduly),
 339      Keep non-significant blanks node in HTML parser (Daniel Veillard),
 340      Add a forbidden variable error number and message to XPath (Daniel Veillard),
 341      Support long path names on WNT (Michael Stahl),
 342      Improve HTML escaping of attribute on output (Daniel Veillard),
 343      Handle ICU_LIBS as LIBADD, not LDFLAGS to prevent linking errors (Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis),
 344      Switching XPath node sorting to Timsort (Vojtech Fried),
 345      Optimizing '//' in XPath expressions (Nick Wellnhofer),
 346      Expose xmlBufShrink in the public tree API (Daniel Veillard),
 347      Visible HTML elements close the head tag (Conrad Irwin),
 348      Fix file and line report for XSD SAX and reader streaming validation (Daniel Veillard),
 349      Fix const qualifyer to definition of xmlBufferDetach (Daniel Veillard),
 350      minimize use of HAVE_CONFIG_H (Roumen Petrov),
 351      fixup regression in Various "make distcheck" and portability fixups (Roumen Petrov),
 352      Add support for big line numbers in error reporting (Daniel Veillard),
 353      Avoid using xmlBuffer for serialization (Daniel Veillard),
 354      Improve compatibility between xmlBuf and xmlBuffer (Daniel Veillard),
 355      Provide new accessors for xmlOutputBuffer (Daniel Veillard),
 356      Improvements for old buffer compatibility (Daniel Veillard),
 357      Expand the limit test program (Daniel Veillard),
 358      Improve error reporting on parser errors (Daniel Veillard),
 359      Implement some default limits in the XPath module (Daniel Veillard),
 360      Introduce some default parser limits (Daniel Veillard),
 361      Cleanups and new limit APIs for dictionaries (Daniel Veillard),
 362      Fixup for buf.c (Daniel Veillard),
 363      Cleanup URI module memory allocation code (Daniel Veillard),
 364      Extend testlimits (Daniel Veillard),
 365      More avoid quadratic behaviour (Daniel Veillard),
 366      Impose a reasonable limit on PI size (Daniel Veillard),
 367      first version of testlimits new test (Daniel Veillard),
 368      Avoid quadratic behaviour in some push parsing cases (Daniel Veillard),
 369      Impose a reasonable limit on comment size (Daniel Veillard),
 370      Impose a reasonable limit on attribute size (Daniel Veillard),
 371      Harden the buffer code and make it more compatible (Daniel Veillard),
 372      More cleanups for input/buffers code (Daniel Veillard),
 373      Cleanup function xmlBufResetInput(), to set input from Buffer (Daniel Veillard)
 374      Swicth the test program for characters to new input buffers (Daniel Veillard),
 375      Convert the HTML tree module to the new buffers (Daniel Veillard),
 376      Convert of the HTML parser to new input buffers (Daniel Veillard),
 377      Convert the writer to new output buffer and save APIs (Daniel Veillard),
 378      Convert XMLReader to the new input buffers (Daniel Veillard),
 379      New saving functions using xmlBuf and conversion (Daniel Veillard),
 380      Provide new xmlBuf based saving functions (Daniel Veillard),
 381      Convert XInclude to the new input buffers (Daniel Veillard),
 382      Convert catalog code to the new input buffers (Daniel Veillard),
 383      Convert C14N to the new Input buffer (Daniel Veillard),
 384      Convert xmlIO.c to the new input and output buffers (Daniel Veillard),
 385      Convert XML parser to the new input buffers (Daniel Veillard),
 386      Incompatible change to the Input and Output buffers (Daniel Veillard),
 387      Adding new encoding function to deal with the new structures (Daniel Veillard),
 388      Convert XPath to xmlBuf (Daniel Veillard),
 389      Adding a new buf module for buffers (Daniel Veillard),
 390      Memory error within SAX2 reuse common framework (Daniel Veillard),
 391      Fix xmllint --xpath node initialization (Daniel Veillard)
 392    
 393     -  Cleanups:
 394      Various cleanups to avoid compiler warnings (Daniel Veillard),
 395      Big space and tab cleanup (Daniel Veillard),
 396      Followup to LibXML2 docs/examples cleanup patch (Daniel Veillard),
 397      Second round of cleanups for LibXML2 docs/examples (Daniel Richard),
 398      Remove all .cvsignore as they are not used anymore (Daniel Veillard),
 399      Fix a Timsort function helper comment (Daniel Veillard),
 400      Small cleanup for valgrind target (Daniel Veillard),
 401      Patch for portability of latin characters in C files (Daniel Veillard),
 402      Cleanup some of the parser code (Daniel Veillard),
 403      Fix a variable name in comment (Daniel Veillard),
 404      Regenerated testapi.c (Daniel Veillard),
 405      Regenerating docs and API files (Daniel Veillard),
 406      Small cleanup of unused variables in test (Daniel Veillard),
 407      Expand .gitignore with more files (Daniel Veillard)
 408    
 409  
 410  
 411  2.8.0: May 23 2012:
 412     - Features:
 413    add lzma compression support (Anders F Bjorklund)
 414    
 415     - Documentation:
 416      xmlcatalog: Add uri and delegateURI to possible add types in man page. (Ville Skyttä),
 417      Update README.tests (Daniel Veillard),
 418      URI handling code is not OOM resilient (Daniel Veillard),
 419      Fix an error in comment (Daniel Veillard),
 420      Fixed bug #617016 (Daniel Mustieles),
 421      Fixed two typos in the README document (Daniel Neel),
 422      add generated html files (Anders F Bjorklund),
 423      Clarify the need to use xmlFreeNode after xmlUnlinkNode (Daniel Veillard),
 424      Improve documentation a bit (Daniel Veillard),
 425      Updated URL for lxml python bindings (Daniel Veillard)
 426    
 427     - Portability:
 428      Restore code for Windows compilation (Daniel Veillard),
 429      Remove git error message during configure (Christian Dywan),
 430      xmllint: Build fix for endTimer if !defined(HAVE_GETTIMEOFDAY) (Patrick R. Gansterer),
 431      remove a bashism in confgure.in (John Hein),
 432      undef ERROR if already defined (Patrick R. Gansterer),
 433      Fix library problems with mingw-w64 (Michael Cronenworth),
 434      fix windows build. ifdef addition from bug 666491 makes no sense (Rob Richards),
 435      prefer native threads on win32 (Sam Thursfield),
 436      Allow to compile with Visual Studio 2010 (Thomas Lemm),
 437      Fix mingw's snprintf configure check (Andoni Morales),
 438      fixed a 64bit big endian issue (Marcus Meissner),
 439      Fix portability failure if netdb.h lacks NO_ADDRESS (Daniel Veillard),
 440      Fix windows build from lzma addition (Rob Richards),
 441      autogen: Only check for libtoolize (Colin Walters),
 442      Fix the Windows build files (Patrick von Reth),
 443      634846 Remove a linking option breaking Windows VC10 (Daniel Veillard),
 444      599241 fix an initialization problem on Win64 (Andrew W. Nosenko),
 445      fix win build (Rob Richards)
 446    
 447     - Bug fixes:
 448      Part for rand_r checking missing (Daniel Veillard),
 449      Cleanup on randomization (Daniel Veillard),
 450      Fix undefined reference in python module (Pacho Ramos),
 451      Fix a race in xmlNewInputStream (Daniel Veillard),
 452      Fix weird streaming RelaxNG errors (Noam),
 453      Fix various bugs in new code raised by the API checking (Daniel Veillard),
 454      Fix various problems with "make dist" (Daniel Veillard),
 455      Fix a memory leak in the xzlib code (Daniel Veillard),
 456      HTML parser error with <noscript> in the <head> (Denis Pauk),
 457      XSD: optional element in complex type extension (Remi Gacogne),
 458      Fix html serialization error and htmlSetMetaEncoding() (Daniel Veillard),
 459      Fix a wrong return value in previous patch (Daniel Veillard),
 460      Fix an uninitialized variable use (Daniel Veillard),
 461      Fix a compilation problem with --minimum (Brandon Slack),
 462      Remove redundant and ungarded include of resolv.h (Daniel Veillard),
 463      xinclude with parse="text" does not use the entity loader (Shaun McCance),
 464      Allow to parse 1 byte HTML files (Denis Pauk),
 465      Patch that fixes the skipping of the HTML_PARSE_NOIMPLIED flag (Martin Schröder),
 466      Avoid memory leak if xmlParserInputBufferCreateIO fails (Lin Yi-Li),
 467      Prevent an infinite loop when dumping a node with encoding problems (Timothy Elliott),
 468      xmlParseNodeInContext problems with an empty document (Tim Elliott),
 469      HTML element position is not detected propperly (Pavel Andrejs),
 470      Fix an off by one pointer access (Jüri Aedla),
 471      Try to fix a problem with entities in SAX mode (Daniel Veillard),
 472      Fix a crash with xmllint --path on empty results (Daniel Veillard),
 473      Fixed bug #667946 (Daniel Mustieles),
 474      Fix a logic error in Schemas Component Constraints (Ryan Sleevi),
 475      Fix a wrong enum type use in Schemas Types (Nico Weber),
 476      Fix SAX2 builder in case of undefined attributes namespace (Daniel Veillard),
 477      Fix SAX2 builder in case of undefined element namespaces (Daniel Veillard),
 478      fix reference to STDOUT_FILENO on MSVC (Tay Ray Chuan),
 479      fix a pair of possible out of array char references (Daniel Veillard),
 480      Fix an allocation error when copying entities (Daniel Veillard),
 481      Make sure the parser returns when getting a Stop order (Chris Evans),
 482      Fix some potential problems on reallocation failures(parser.c) (Xia Xinfeng),
 483      Fix a schema type duration comparison overflow (Daniel Veillard),
 484      Fix an unimplemented part in RNG value validation (Daniel Veillard),
 485      Fix missing error status in XPath evaluation (Daniel Veillard),
 486      Hardening of XPath evaluation (Daniel Veillard),
 487      Fix an off by one error in encoding (Daniel Veillard),
 488      Fix RELAX NG include bug #655288 (Shaun McCance),
 489      Fix XSD validation bug #630130 (Toyoda Eizi),
 490      Fix some potential problems on reallocation failures (Chris Evans),
 491      __xmlRaiseError: fix use of the structured callback channel (Dmitry V. Levin),
 492      __xmlRaiseError: fix the structured callback channel's data initialization (Dmitry V. Levin),
 493      Fix memory corruption when xmlParseBalancedChunkMemoryInternal is called from xmlParseBalancedChunk (Rob Richards),
 494      Small fix for previous commit (Daniel Veillard),
 495      Fix a potential freeing error in XPath (Daniel Veillard),
 496      Fix a potential memory access error (Daniel Veillard),
 497      Reactivate the shared library versionning script (Daniel Veillard)
 498    
 499     - Improvements:
 500      use mingw C99 compatible functions {v}snprintf instead those from MSVC runtime (Roumen Petrov),
 501      New symbols added for the next release (Daniel Veillard),
 502      xmlTextReader bails too quickly on error (Andy Lutomirski),
 503      Use a hybrid allocation scheme in xmlNodeSetContent (Conrad Irwin),
 504      Use buffers when constructing string node lists. (Conrad Irwin),
 505      Add HTML parser support for HTML5 meta charset encoding declaration (Denis Pauk),
 506      wrong message for double hyphen in comment XML error (Bryan Henderson),
 507      Fix "make tst" to grab lzma lib too (Daniel Veillard),
 508      Add "whereis" command to xmllint shell (Ryan),
 509      Improve xmllint shell (Ryan),
 510      add function xmlTextReaderRelaxNGValidateCtxt() (Noam Postavsky),
 511      Add --system support to autogen.sh (Daniel Veillard),
 512      Add hash randomization to hash and dict structures (Daniel Veillard),
 513      included xzlib in dist (Anders F Bjorklund),
 514      move xz/lzma helpers to separate included files (Anders F Bjorklund),
 515      add generated devhelp files (Anders F Bjorklund),
 516      add XML_WITH_LZMA to api (Anders F Bjorklund),
 517      autogen.sh: Honor NOCONFIGURE environment variable (Colin Walters),
 518      Improve the error report on undefined REFs (Daniel Veillard),
 519      Add exception for new W3C PI xml-model (Daniel Veillard),
 520      Add options to ignore the internal encoding (Daniel Veillard),
 521      testapi: use the right type for the check (Stefan Kost),
 522      various: handle return values of write calls (Stefan Kost),
 523      testWriter: xmlTextWriterWriteFormatElement wants an int instead of a long int (Stefan Kost),
 524      runxmlconf: update to latest testsuite version (Stefan Kost),
 525      configure: add -Wno-long-long to CFLAGS (Stefan Kost),
 526      configure: support silent automake rules if possible (Stefan Kost),
 527      xmlmemory: add a cast as size_t has no portable printf modifier (Stefan Kost),
 528      __xmlRaiseError: remove redundant schannel initialization (Dmitry V. Levin),
 529      __xmlRaiseError: do cheap code check early (Dmitry V. Levin)
 530    
 531     - Cleanups:
 532      Cleanups before 2.8.0-rc2 (Daniel Veillard),
 533      Avoid an extra operation (Daniel Veillard),
 534      Remove vestigial de-ANSI-fication support. (Javier Jardón),
 535      autogen.sh: Fix typo (Javier Jardón),
 536      Do not use unsigned but unsigned int (Daniel Veillard),
 537      Remove two references to u_short (Daniel Veillard),
 538      Fix -Wempty-body warning from clang (Nico Weber),
 539      Cleanups of lzma support (Daniel Veillard),
 540      Augment the list of ignored files (Daniel Veillard),
 541      python: remove unused variable (Stefan Kost),
 542      python: flag two unused args (Stefan Kost),
 543      configure: acconfig.h is deprecated since autoconf-2.50 (Stefan Kost),
 544      xpath: remove unused variable (Stefan Kost)
 545    
 546  
 547  
 548  2.7.8: Nov 4 2010:
 549     -  Features:
 550      480323 add code to plug in ICU converters by default (Giuseppe Iuculano),
 551      Add xmlSaveOption XML_SAVE_WSNONSIG (Adam Spragg)
 552    
 553     -  Documentation:
 554      Fix devhelp documentation installation (Mike Hommey),
 555      Fix web site encoding problems (Daniel Veillard),
 556      Fix a couple of typo in HTML parser error messages (Michael Day),
 557      Forgot to update the news page for 0.7.7 (Daniel Veillard)
 558    
 559     -  Portability:
 560      607273 Fix python detection on MSys/Windows (LRN),
 561      614087 Fix Socket API usage to allow Windows64 compilation (Ozkan Sezer),
 562      Fix compilation with Clang (Koop Mast),
 563      Fix Win32 build (Rob Richards)
 564    
 565     -  Bug Fixes:
 566      595789 fix a remaining potential Solaris problem (Daniel Veillard),
 567      617468 fix progressive HTML parsing with style using "'" (Denis Pauk),
 568      616478 Fix xmllint shell write command (Gwenn Kahz),
 569      614005 Possible erroneous HTML parsing on unterminated script (Pierre Belzile),
 570      627987 Fix XSD IDC errors in imported schemas (Jim Panetta),
 571      629325 XPath rounding errors first cleanup (Phil Shafer),
 572      630140 fix iso995x encoding error (Daniel Veillard),
 573      make sure htmlCtxtReset do reset the disableSAX field (Daniel Veillard),
 574      Fix a change of semantic on XPath preceding and following axis (Daniel Veillard),
 575      Fix a potential segfault due to weak symbols on pthreads (Mike Hommey),
 576      Fix a leak in XPath compilation (Daniel Veillard),
 577      Fix the semantic of XPath axis for namespace/attribute context nodes (Daniel Veillard),
 578      Avoid a descriptor leak in catalog loading code (Carlo Bramini),
 579      Fix a small bug in XPath evaluation code (Marius Wachtler),
 580      Fix handling of XML-1.0 XML namespace declaration (Daniel Veillard),
 581      Fix errors in XSD double validation check (Csaba Raduly),
 582      Fix handling of apos in URIs (Daniel Veillard),
 583      xmlTextReaderReadOuterXml should handle DTD (Rob Richards),
 584      Autogen.sh needs to create m4 directory (Rob Richards)
 585    
 586     -  Improvements:
 587      606592 update language ID parser to RFC 5646 (Daniel Veillard),
 588      Sort python generated stubs (Mike Hommey),
 589      Add an HTML parser option to avoid a default doctype (Daniel Veillard)
 590    
 591     -  Cleanups:
 592      618831 don't ship generated files in git (Adrian Bunk),
 593      Switch from the obsolete mkinstalldirs to AC_PROG_MKDIR_P (Adrian Bunk),
 594      Various cleanups on encoding handling (Daniel Veillard),
 595      Fix xmllint to use format=1 for default formatting (Adam Spragg),
 596      Force _xmlSaveCtxt.format to be 0 or 1 (Adam Spragg),
 597      Cleanup encoding pointer comparison (Nikolay Sivov),
 598      Small code cleanup on previous patch (Daniel Veillard)
 599    
 600  
 601  
 602  2.7.7: Mar 15 2010:
 603     -  Improvements:
 604      Adding a --xpath option to xmllint (Daniel Veillard),
 605      Make HTML parser non-recursive (Eugene Pimenov)
 606    
 607     -  Portability:
 608      relaxng.c: cast to allow compilation with sun studio 11 (Ben Walton),
 609      Fix build failure on Sparc solaris (Roumen Petrov),
 610      use autoreconf in autogen.sh (Daniel Veillard),
 611      Fix build with mingw (Roumen Petrov),
 612      Upgrade some of the configure and autogen (Daniel Veillard),
 613      Fix relaxNG tests in runtest for Windows runtest.c: initialize ret (Rob Richards),
 614      Fix a const warning in xmlNodeSetBase (Martin Trappel),
 615      Fix python generator to not use deprecated xmllib (Daniel Veillard),
 616      Update some automake files (Daniel Veillard),
 617      598785 Fix nanohttp on Windows (spadix)
 618    
 619     -  Bug Fixes:
 620      libxml violates the zlib interface and crashes (Mark Adler),
 621      Fix broken escape behaviour in regexp ranges (Daniel Veillard),
 622      Fix  missing win32 libraries in libxml-2.0.pc (Volker Grabsch),
 623      Fix detection of python linker flags (Daniel Macks),
 624      fix build error in libxml2/python (Paul Smith),
 625      ChunkParser: Incorrect decoding of small xml files (Raul Hudea),
 626      htmlCheckEncoding doesn't update input-end after shrink (Eugene Pimenov),
 627      Fix a missing #ifdef (Daniel Veillard),
 628      Fix encoding selection for xmlParseInNodeContext (Daniel Veillard),
 629      xmlPreviousElementSibling mistake (François Delyon),
 630      608773 add a missing check in xmlGROW (Daniel Veillard),
 631      Fix xmlParseInNodeContext for HTML content (Daniel Veillard),
 632      Fix lost namespace when copying node * tree.c: reconcile namespace if not found (Rob Richards),
 633      Fix some missing commas in HTML element lists (Eugene Pimenov),
 634      Correct variable type to unsigned (Nikolay Sivov),
 635      Recognize ID attribute in HTML without DOCTYPE (Daniel Veillard),
 636      Fix memory leak in xmlXPathEvalExpression() (Martin),
 637      Fix an init bug in global.c (Kai Henning),
 638      Fix xmlNodeSetBase() comment (Daniel Veillard),
 639      Fix broken escape behaviour in regexp ranges (Daniel Veillard),
 640      Don't give default HTML boolean attribute values in parser (Daniel Veillard),
 641      xmlCtxtResetLastError should reset ctxt-errNo (Daniel Veillard)
 642    
 643     -  Cleanups:
 644      Cleanup a couple of weirdness in HTML parser (Eugene Pimenov)
 645    
 646  
 647  
 648  2.7.6: Oct  6 2009:
 649     -  Bug Fixes:
 650       Restore thread support in default configuration (Andrew W. Nosenko),
 651       URI with no path parsing problem (Daniel Veillard),
 652       Minor patch for conditional defines in threads.c (Eric Zurcher)
 653    
 654  
 655  
 656  2.7.5: Sep 24 2009:
 657     -  Bug Fixes:
 658      Restore behavior of --with-threads without argument (Andrew W. Nosenko),
 659      Fix memory leak when doc is NULL (Rob Richards),
 660      595792 fixing a RelaxNG bug introduced in 2.7.4 (Daniel Veillard),
 661      Fix a Relaxng bug raised by libvirt test suite (Daniel Veillard),
 662      Fix a parsing problem with little data at startup (Daniel Veillard),
 663      link python module with python library (Frederic Crozat),
 664      594874 Forgot an fclose in xmllint (Daniel Veillard)
 665    
 666     -  Cleanup:
 667      Adding symbols.xml to EXTRA_DIST (Daniel Veillard)
 668    
 669  
 670  
 671  2.7.4: Sep 10 2009:
 672     - Improvements:
 673      Switch to GIT (GNOME),
 674      Add symbol versioning to libxml2 shared libs (Daniel Veillard)
 675    
 676     - Portability:
 677      593857 try to work around thread pbm MinGW 4.4 (Daniel Veillard),
 678      594250 rename ATTRIBUTE_ALLOC_SIZE to avoid clashes (Daniel Veillard),
 679      Fix Windows build * relaxng.c: fix windows build (Rob Richards),
 680      Fix the globals.h to use XMLPUBFUN (Paul Smith),
 681      Problem with extern extern in header (Daniel Veillard),
 682      Add -lnetwork for compiling on Haiku (Scott McCreary),
 683      Runtest portability patch for Solaris (Tim Rice),
 684      Small patch to accomodate the Haiku OS (Scott McCreary),
 685      584605 package VxWorks folder in the distribution (Daniel Veillard),
 686      574017 Realloc too expensive on most platform (Daniel Veillard),
 687      Fix windows build (Rob Richards),
 688      545579 doesn't compile without schema support (Daniel Veillard),
 689      xmllint use xmlGetNodePath when not compiled in (Daniel Veillard),
 690      Try to avoid __imp__xmlFree link trouble on msys (Daniel Veillard),
 691      Allow to select the threading system on Windows (LRN),
 692      Fix Solaris binary links, cleanups (Daniel Veillard),
 693      Bug 571059 – MSVC doesn't work with the bakefile (Intron),
 694      fix ATTRIBUTE_PRINTF header clash (Belgabor and Mike Hommey),
 695      fixes for Borland/CodeGear/Embarcadero compilers (Eric Zurcher)
 696    
 697     - Documentation:
 698      544910 typo: "renciliateNs" (Leonid Evdokimov),
 699      Add VxWorks to list of OSes (Daniel Veillard),
 700      Regenerate the documentation and update for git (Daniel Veillard),
 701      560524 ¿ xmlTextReaderLocalName description (Daniel Veillard),
 702      Added sponsoring by AOE media for the server (Daniel Veillard),
 703      updated URLs for GNOME (Vincent Lefevre),
 704      more warnings about xmlCleanupThreads and xmlCleanupParser (Daniel Veillard)
 705    
 706     - Bug fixes:
 707      594514 memory leaks - duplicate initialization (MOD),
 708      Wrong block opening in htmlNodeDumpOutputInternal (Daniel Veillard),
 709      492317 Fix  Relax-NG validation problems (Daniel Veillard),
 710      558452 fight with reg test and error report (Daniel Veillard),
 711      558452 RNG compilation of optional multiple child (Daniel Veillard),
 712      579746 XSD validation not correct / nilable groups (Daniel Veillard),
 713      502960 provide namespace stack when parsing entity (Daniel Veillard),
 714      566012 part 2 fix regresion tests and push mode (Daniel Veillard),
 715      566012 autodetected encoding and encoding conflict (Daniel Veillard),
 716      584220 xpointer(/) and xinclude problems (Daniel Veillard),
 717      587663 Incorrect Attribute-Value Normalization (Daniel Veillard),
 718      444994 HTML chunked failure for attribute with <> (Daniel Veillard),
 719      Fix end of buffer char being split in XML parser (Daniel Veillard),
 720      Non ASCII character may be split at buffer end (Adiel Mittmann),
 721      440226 Add xmlXIncludeProcessTreeFlagsData API (Stefan Behnel),
 722      572129 speed up parsing of large HTML text nodes (Markus Kull),
 723      Fix HTML parsing with 0 character in CDATA (Daniel Veillard),
 724      Fix SetGenericErrorFunc and SetStructured clash (Wang Lam),
 725      566012  Incomplete EBCDIC parsing support (Martin Kogler),
 726      541335 HTML avoid creating 2 head or 2 body element (Daniel Veillard),
 727      541237 error correcting missing end tags in HTML (Daniel Veillard),
 728      583439 missing line numbers in push mode (Daniel Veillard),
 729      587867 xmllint --html --xmlout serializing as HTML (Daniel Veillard),
 730      559501 avoid select and use poll for nanohttp (Raphael Prevost),
 731      559410 -  Regexp bug on (...)? constructs (Daniel Veillard),
 732      Fix a small problem on previous HTML parser patch (Daniel Veillard),
 733      592430 -  HTML parser runs into endless loop (Daniel Veillard),
 734      447899 potential double free in xmlFreeTextReader (Daniel Veillard),
 735      446613 small validation bug mixed content with NS (Daniel Veillard),
 736      Fix the problem of revalidating a doc with RNG (Daniel Veillard),
 737      Fix xmlKeepBlanksDefault to not break indent (Nick Wellnhofer),
 738      512131 refs from externalRef part need to be added (Daniel Veillard),
 739      512131 crash in xmlRelaxNGValidateFullElement (Daniel Veillard),
 740      588441 allow '.' in HTML Names even if invalid (Daniel Veillard),
 741      582913 Fix htmlSetMetaEncoding() to be nicer (Daniel Veillard),
 742      579317 Try to find the HTML encoding information (Daniel Veillard),
 743      575875 don't output charset=html (Daniel Veillard),
 744      571271 fix semantic of xsd:all with minOccurs=0 (Daniel Veillard),
 745      570702 fix a bug in regexp determinism checking (Daniel Veillard),
 746      567619 xmlValidateNotationUse missing param test (Daniel Veillard),
 747      574393 ¿ utf-8 filename magic for compressed files (Hans Breuer),
 748      Fix a couple of problems in the parser (Daniel Veillard),
 749      585505 ¿ Document ids and refs populated by XSD (Wayne Jensen),
 750      582906 XSD validating multiple imports of the same schema (Jason Childs),
 751      Bug 582887 ¿ problems validating complex schemas (Jason Childs),
 752      Bug 579729 ¿ fix XSD schemas parsing crash (Miroslav Bajtos),
 753      576368 ¿ htmlChunkParser with special attributes (Jiri Netolicky),
 754      Bug 565747 ¿ relax anyURI data character checking (Vincent Lefevre),
 755      Preserve attributes of include start on tree copy (Petr Pajas),
 756      Skip silently unrecognized XPointer schemes (Jakub Wilk),
 757      Fix leak on SAX1, xmllint --sax1 option and debug (Daniel Veillard),
 758      potential NULL dereference on non-glibc (Jim Meyering),
 759      Fix an XSD validation crash (Daniel Veillard),
 760      Fix a regression in streaming entities support (Daniel Veillard),
 761      Fix a couple of ABI issues with C14N 1.1 (Aleksey Sanin),
 762      Aleksey Sanin support for c14n 1.1 (Aleksey Sanin),
 763      reader bug fix with entities (Daniel Veillard),
 764      use options from current parser ctxt for external entities (Rob Richards),
 765      581612 use %s to printf strings (Christian Persch),
 766      584605 change the threading initialization sequence (Igor Novoseltsev),
 767      580705 keep line numbers in HTML parser (Aaron Patterson),
 768      581803 broken HTML table attributes init (Roland Steiner),
 769      do not set error code in xmlNsWarn (Rob Richards),
 770      564217 fix structured error handling problems,
 771      reuse options from current parser for entities (Rob Richards),
 772      xmlXPathRegisterNs should not allow enpty prefixes (Daniel Veillard),
 773      add a missing check in xmlAddSibling (Kris Breuker),
 774      avoid leaks on errors (Jinmei Tatuya)
 775    
 776     - Cleanup:
 777      Chasing dead assignments reported by clang-scan (Daniel Veillard),
 778      A few more safety cleanup raised by scan (Daniel Veillard),
 779      Fixing assorted potential problems raised by scan (Daniel Veillard),
 780      Potential uninitialized arguments raised by scan (Daniel Veillard),
 781      Fix a bunch of scan 'dead increments' and cleanup (Daniel Veillard),
 782      Remove a pedantic warning (Daniel Veillard),
 783      555833 always use rm -f in uninstall-local (Daniel Veillard),
 784      542394 xmlRegisterOutputCallbacks MAX_INPUT_CALLBACK (Daniel Veillard),
 785      Autoregenerate libxml2.syms automated checkings (Daniel Veillard),
 786      Make xmlRecoverDoc const (Martin Trappel) (Daniel Veillard),
 787      Both args of xmlStrcasestr are const (Daniel Veillard),
 788      hide the nbParse* variables used for debugging (Mike Hommey),
 789      570806 changed include of config.h (William M. Brack),
 790      cleanups and error reports when xmlTextWriterVSprintf fails (Jinmei Tatuya)
 791    
 792  
 793  
 794  2.7.3: Jan 18 2009:
 795     - Build fix: fix build when HTML support is not included.
 796     - Bug fixes: avoid memory overflow in gigantic text nodes,
 797        indentation problem on the writed (Rob Richards),
 798        xmlAddChildList pointer problem (Rob Richards and Kevin Milburn),
 799        xmlAddChild problem with attribute (Rob Richards and Kris Breuker),
 800        avoid a memory leak in an edge case (Daniel Zimmermann),
 801        deallocate some pthread data (Alex Ott).
 802     - Improvements: configure option to avoid rebuilding docs (Adrian Bunk),
 803        limit text nodes to 10MB max by default, add element traversal
 804        APIs, add a parser option to enable pre 2.7 SAX behavior (Rob Richards),
 805        add gcc malloc checking (Marcus Meissner), add gcc printf like functions
 806        parameters checking (Marcus Meissner).
 807  
 808  
 809  2.7.2: Oct 3 2008:
 810     - Portability fix: fix solaris compilation problem, fix compilation
 811          if XPath is not configured in
 812     - Bug fixes: nasty entity bug introduced in 2.7.0, restore old behaviour
 813          when saving an HTML doc with an xml dump function, HTML UTF-8 parsing
 814          bug, fix reader custom error handlers (Riccardo Scussat)
 815      
 816     - Improvement: xmlSave options for more flexibility to save as
 817          XML/HTML/XHTML, handle leading BOM in HTML documents
 818  
 819  
 820  2.7.1: Sep 1 2008:
 821     - Portability fix: Borland C fix (Moritz Both)
 822     - Bug fixes: python serialization wrappers, XPath QName corner
 823          case handking and leaks (Martin)
 824     - Improvement: extend the xmlSave to handle HTML documents and trees
 825     - Cleanup: python serialization wrappers
 826  
 827  
 828  2.7.0: Aug 30 2008:
 829     - Documentation: switch ChangeLog to UTF-8, improve mutithreads and
 830        xmlParserCleanup docs
 831     - Portability fixes: Older Win32 platforms (Rob Richards), MSVC
 832        porting fix (Rob Richards), Mac OS X regression tests (Sven Herzberg),
 833        non GNUCC builds (Rob Richards), compilation on Haiku (Andreas Färber)
 834        
 835     - Bug fixes: various realloc problems (Ashwin), potential double-free
 836        (Ashwin), regexp crash, icrash with invalid whitespace facets (Rob
 837        Richards), pattern fix when streaming (William Brack), various XML
 838        parsing and validation fixes based on the W3C regression tests, reader
 839        tree skipping function fix (Ashwin), Schemas regexps escaping fix
 840        (Volker Grabsch), handling of entity push errors (Ashwin), fix a slowdown
 841        when encoder cant serialize characters on output
 842     - Code cleanup: compilation fix without the reader, without the output
 843        (Robert Schwebel), python whitespace (Martin), many space/tabs cleanups,
 844        serious cleanup of the entity handling code
 845     - Improvement: switch parser to XML-1.0 5th edition, add parsing flags
 846        for old versions, switch URI parsing to RFC 3986,
 847        add xmlSchemaValidCtxtGetParserCtxt (Holger Kaelberer),
 848        new hashing functions for dictionaries (based on Stefan Behnel work),
 849        improve handling of misplaced html/head/body in HTML parser, better
 850        regression test tools and code coverage display, better algorithms
 851        to detect various versions of the billion laughts attacks, make
 852        arbitrary parser limits avoidable as a parser option
 853  
 854  
 855  2.6.32: Apr 8 2008:
 856     - Documentation: returning heap memory to kernel (Wolfram Sang),
 857        trying to clarify xmlCleanupParser() use, xmlXPathContext improvement
 858        (Jack Jansen), improve the *Recover* functions documentation,
 859        XmlNodeType doc link fix (Martijn Arts)
 860     - Bug fixes: internal subset memory leak (Ashwin), avoid problem with
 861        paths starting with // (Petr Sumbera), streaming XSD validation callback
 862        patches (Ashwin), fix redirection on port other than 80 (William Brack),
 863        SAX2 leak (Ashwin), XInclude fragment of own document (Chris Ryan),
 864        regexp bug with '.' (Andrew Tosh), flush the writer at the end of the
 865        document (Alfred Mickautsch), output I/O bug fix (William Brack),
 866        writer CDATA output after a text node (Alex Khesin), UTF-16 encoding
 867        detection (William Brack), fix handling of empty CDATA nodes for Safari
 868        team, python binding problem with namespace nodes, improve HTML parsing
 869        (Arnold Hendriks), regexp automata build bug, memory leak fix (Vasily
 870        Chekalkin), XSD test crash, weird system parameter entity parsing problem,
 871        allow save to file:///X:/ windows paths, various attribute normalisation
 872        problems, externalSubsetSplit fix (Ashwin), attribute redefinition in
 873        the DTD (Ashwin), fix in char ref parsing check (Alex Khesin), many
 874        out of memory handling fixes (Ashwin), XPath out of memory handling fixes
 875        (Alvaro Herrera), various realloc problems (Ashwin), UCS4 encoding
 876        conversion buffer size (Christian Fruth), problems with EatName
 877        functions on memory errors, BOM handling in external parsed entities
 878        (Mark Rowe)
 879     - Code cleanup: fix build under VS 2008 (David Wimsey), remove useless
 880        mutex in xmlDict (Florent Guilian), Mingw32 compilation fix (Carlo
 881        Bramini), Win and MacOS EOL cleanups (Florent Guiliani), iconv need
 882        a const detection (Roumen Petrov), simplify xmlSetProp (Julien Charbon),
 883        cross compilation fixes for Mingw (Roumen Petrov), SCO Openserver build
 884        fix (Florent Guiliani), iconv uses const on Win32 (Rob Richards),
 885        duplicate code removal (Ashwin), missing malloc test and error reports
 886        (Ashwin), VMS makefile fix (Tycho Hilhorst)
 887     - improvements: better plug of schematron in the normal error handling
 888        (Tobias Minich)
 889  
 890  
 891  2.6.31: Jan 11 2008:
 892     - Security fix: missing of checks in UTF-8 parsing
 893     - Bug fixes: regexp bug, dump attribute from XHTML document, fix
 894        xmlFree(NULL) to not crash in debug mode, Schematron parsing crash
 895        (Rob Richards), global lock free on Windows (Marc-Antoine Ruel),
 896        XSD crash due to double free (Rob Richards), indentation fix in
 897        xmlTextWriterFullEndElement (Felipe Pena), error in attribute type
 898        parsing if attribute redeclared, avoid crash in hash list scanner if
 899        deleting elements, column counter bug fix (Christian Schmidt),
 900        HTML embed element saving fix (Stefan Behnel), avoid -L/usr/lib
 901        output from xml2-config (Fred Crozat), avoid an xmllint crash 
 902        (Stefan Kost), don't stop HTML parsing on out of range chars.
 903        
 904     - Code cleanup: fix open() call third argument, regexp cut'n paste
 905        copy error, unused variable in __xmlGlobalInitMutexLock (Hannes Eder),
 906        some make distcheck realted fixes (John Carr)
 907     - Improvements: HTTP Header: includes port number (William Brack),
 908        testURI --debug option, 
 909  
 910  
 911  2.6.30: Aug 23 2007:
 912     - Portability: Solaris crash on error handling, windows path fixes
 913        (Roland Schwarz and Rob Richards), mingw build (Roland Schwarz)
 914     - Bugfixes: xmlXPathNodeSetSort problem (William Brack), leak when
 915        reusing a writer for a new document (Dodji Seketeli), Schemas
 916        xsi:nil handling patch (Frank Gross), relative URI build problem
 917        (Patrik Fimml), crash in xmlDocFormatDump, invalid char in comment
 918        detection bug, fix disparity with xmlSAXUserParseMemory, automata
 919        generation for complex regexp counts problems, Schemas IDC import
 920        problems (Frank Gross), xpath predicate evailation error handling
 921        (William Brack)
 922  
 923  
 924  2.6.29: Jun 12 2007:
 925     - Portability: patches from Andreas Stricke for WinCEi,
 926        fix compilation warnings (William Brack), avoid warnings on Apple OS/X
 927        (Wendy Doyle and Mark Rowe), Windows compilation and threading
 928        improvements (Rob Richards), compilation against old Python versions,
 929        new GNU tar changes (Ryan Hill)
 930     - Documentation: xmlURIUnescapeString comment, 
 931     - Bugfixes: xmlBufferAdd problem (Richard Jones), 'make valgrind'
 932        flag fix (Richard Jones), regexp interpretation of \,
 933        htmlCreateDocParserCtxt (Jean-Daniel Dupas), configure.in
 934        typo (Bjorn Reese), entity content failure, xmlListAppend() fix
 935        (Georges-André Silber), XPath number serialization (William Brack),
 936        nanohttp gzipped stream fix (William Brack and Alex Cornejo),
 937        xmlCharEncFirstLine typo (Mark Rowe), uri bug (François Delyon),
 938        XPath string value of PI nodes (William Brack), XPath node set
 939        sorting bugs (William Brack), avoid outputting namespace decl
 940        dups in the writer (Rob Richards), xmlCtxtReset bug, UTF-8 encoding
 941        error handling, recustion on next in catalogs, fix a Relax-NG crash,
 942        workaround wrong file: URIs, htmlNodeDumpFormatOutput on attributes,
 943        invalid character in attribute detection bug, big comments before 
 944        internal subset streaming bug, HTML parsing of attributes with : in
 945        the name, IDness of name in HTML (Dagfinn I. Mannsåker) 
 946     - Improvement: keep URI query parts in raw form (Richard Jones),
 947        embed tag support in HTML (Michael Day) 
 948  
 949  
 950  2.6.28: Apr 17 2007:
 951     - Documentation: comment fixes (Markus Keim), xpath comments fixes too
 952        (James Dennett)
 953     - Bug fixes: XPath bug (William Brack), HTML parser autoclose stack usage
 954        (Usamah Malik), various regexp bug fixes (DV and William), path conversion
 955        on Windows (Igor Zlatkovic), htmlCtxtReset fix (Michael Day), XPath
 956        principal node of axis bug, HTML serialization of some codepoint
 957        (Steven Rainwater), user data propagation in XInclude (Michael Day),
 958        standalone and XML decl detection (Michael Day), Python id ouptut
 959        for some id, fix the big python string memory leak, URI parsing fixes
 960        (Stéphane Bidoul and William), long comments parsing bug (William),
 961        concurrent threads initialization (Ted Phelps), invalid char
 962        in text XInclude (William), XPath memory leak (William), tab in
 963        python problems (Andreas Hanke), XPath node comparison error
 964        (Oleg Paraschenko), cleanup patch for reader (Julien Reichel),
 965        XML Schemas attribute group (William), HTML parsing problem (William),
 966        fix char 0x2d in regexps (William), regexp quantifier range with
 967        min occurs of 0 (William), HTML script/style parsing (Mike Day)
 968     - Improvement: make xmlTextReaderSetup() public
 969     - Compilation and postability: fix a missing include problem (William),
 970        __ss_familly on AIX again (Björn Wiberg), compilation without zlib
 971        (Michael Day), catalog patch for Win32 (Christian Ehrlicher),
 972        Windows CE fixes (Andreas Stricke)
 973     - Various CVS to SVN infrastructure changes
 974  
 975  
 976  2.6.27: Oct 25 2006:
 977     - Portability fixes: file names on windows (Roland Schwingel, 
 978        Emelyanov Alexey), windows compile fixup (Rob Richards), 
 979        AIX iconv() is apparently case sensitive
 980     - improvements: Python XPath types mapping (Nic Ferrier), XPath optimization
 981        (Kasimier), add xmlXPathCompiledEvalToBoolean (Kasimier), Python node
 982        equality and comparison (Andreas Pakulat), xmlXPathCollectAndTest
 983        improvememt (Kasimier), expose if library was compiled with zlib 
 984        support (Andrew Nosenko), cache for xmlSchemaIDCMatcher structs
 985        (Kasimier), xmlTextConcat should work with comments and PIs (Rob
 986        Richards), export htmlNewParserCtxt needed by Michael Day, refactoring
 987        of catalog entity loaders (Michael Day), add XPointer support to 
 988        python bindings (Ross Reedstrom, Brian West and Stefan Anca), 
 989        try to sort out most file path to URI conversions and xmlPathToUri,
 990        add --html --memory case to xmllint
 991     - building fix: fix --with-minimum (Felipe Contreras), VMS fix, 
 992        const'ification of HTML parser structures (Matthias Clasen),
 993        portability fix (Emelyanov Alexey), wget autodetection (Peter
 994        Breitenlohner),  remove the build path recorded in the python
 995        shared module, separate library flags for shared and static builds
 996        (Mikhail Zabaluev), fix --with-minimum --with-sax1 builds, fix
 997        --with-minimum --with-schemas builds
 998     - bug fix: xmlGetNodePath fix (Kasimier), xmlDOMWrapAdoptNode and
 999        attribute (Kasimier), crash when using the recover mode, 
1000        xmlXPathEvalExpr problem (Kasimier), xmlXPathCompExprAdd bug (Kasimier),
1001        missing destry in xmlFreeRMutex (Andrew Nosenko), XML Schemas fixes
1002        (Kasimier), warning on entities processing, XHTML script and style
1003        serialization (Kasimier), python generator for long types, bug in
1004        xmlSchemaClearValidCtxt (Bertrand Fritsch), xmlSchemaXPathEvaluate
1005        allocation bug (Marton Illes), error message end of line (Rob Richards),
1006        fix attribute serialization in writer (Rob Richards), PHP4 DTD validation
1007        crasher, parser safety patch (Ben Darnell), _private context propagation
1008        when parsing entities (with Michael Day), fix entities behaviour when 
1009        using SAX, URI to file path fix (Mikhail Zabaluev), disapearing validity
1010        context, arg error in SAX callback (Mike Hommey), fix mixed-content
1011        autodetect when using --noblanks, fix xmlIOParseDTD error handling,
1012        fix bug in xmlSplitQName on special Names, fix Relax-NG element content
1013        validation bug, fix xmlReconciliateNs bug, fix potential attribute 
1014        XML parsing bug, fix line/column accounting in XML parser, chunking bug
1015        in the HTML parser on script, try to detect obviously buggy HTML
1016        meta encoding indications, bugs with encoding BOM and xmlSaveDoc, 
1017        HTML entities in attributes parsing, HTML minimized attribute values,
1018        htmlReadDoc and htmlReadIO were broken, error handling bug in
1019        xmlXPathEvalExpression (Olaf Walkowiak), fix a problem in
1020        htmlCtxtUseOptions, xmlNewInputFromFile could leak (Marius Konitzer),
1021        bug on misformed SSD regexps (Christopher Boumenot)
1022        
1023     - documentation: warning about XML_PARSE_COMPACT (Kasimier Buchcik),
1024        fix xmlXPathCastToString documentation, improve man pages for
1025        xmllitn and xmlcatalog (Daniel Leidert), fixed comments of a few
1026        functions
1027  
1028  
1029  2.6.26: Jun 6 2006:
1030     - portability fixes: Python detection (Joseph Sacco), compilation
1031      error(William Brack and Graham Bennett), LynxOS patch (Olli Savia)
1032     - bug fixes: encoding buffer problem, mix of code and data in
1033      xmlIO.c(Kjartan Maraas), entities in XSD validation (Kasimier Buchcik),
1034      variousXSD validation fixes (Kasimier), memory leak in pattern (Rob
1035      Richards andKasimier), attribute with colon in name (Rob Richards), XPath
1036      leak inerror reporting (Aleksey Sanin), XInclude text include of
1037      selfdocument.
1038     - improvements: Xpath optimizations (Kasimier), XPath object
1039      cache(Kasimier)
1040  
1041  
1042  2.6.25: Jun 6 2006::
1043  Do not use or package 2.6.25
1044  2.6.24: Apr 28 2006:
1045     - Portability fixes: configure on Windows, testapi compile on windows
1046        (Kasimier Buchcik, venkat naidu), Borland C++ 6 compile (Eric Zurcher),
1047        HP-UX compiler workaround (Rick Jones), xml2-config bugfix, gcc-4.1
1048        cleanups, Python detection scheme (Joseph Sacco), UTF-8 file paths on
1049        Windows (Roland Schwingel).
1050        
1051     - Improvements: xmlDOMWrapReconcileNamespaces xmlDOMWrapCloneNode (Kasimier
1052        Buchcik), XML catalog debugging (Rick Jones), update to Unicode 4.01.
1053     - Bug fixes: xmlParseChunk() problem in 2.6.23, xmlParseInNodeContext()
1054        on HTML docs, URI behaviour on Windows (Rob Richards), comment streaming
1055        bug, xmlParseComment (with William Brack), regexp bug fixes (DV &
1056        Youri Golovanov), xmlGetNodePath on text/CDATA (Kasimier),
1057        one Relax-NG interleave bug, xmllint --path and --valid,
1058        XSD bugfixes (Kasimier), remove debug
1059        left in Python bindings (Nic Ferrier), xmlCatalogAdd bug (Martin Cole),
1060        xmlSetProp fixes (Rob Richards), HTML IDness (Rob Richards), a large
1061        number of cleanups and small fixes based on Coverity reports, bug
1062        in character ranges, Unicode tables const (Aivars Kalvans), schemas
1063        fix (Stefan Kost), xmlRelaxNGParse error deallocation, 
1064        xmlSchemaAddSchemaDoc error deallocation, error handling on unallowed
1065        code point, ixmllint --nonet to never reach the net (Gary Coady),
1066        line break in writer after end PI (Jason Viers). 
1067     - Documentation: man pages updates and cleanups (Daniel Leidert).
1068     - New features: Relax NG structure error handlers.
1069  
1070  
1071  2.6.23: Jan 5 2006:
1072     - portability fixes: Windows (Rob Richards), getaddrinfo on Windows
1073      (Kolja Nowak, Rob Richards), icc warnings (Kjartan Maraas),
1074      --with-minimum compilation fixes (William Brack), error case handling fix
1075      on Solaris (Albert Chin), don't use 'list' as parameter name reported by
1076      Samuel Diaz Garcia, more old Unices portability fixes (Albert Chin),
1077      MinGW compilation (Mark Junker), HP-UX compiler warnings (Rick
1078    Jones),
1079     - code cleanup: xmlReportError (Adrian Mouat), remove xmlBufferClose
1080      (Geert Jansen), unreachable code (Oleksandr Kononenko), refactoring
1081      parsing code (Bjorn Reese)
1082     - bug fixes: xmlBuildRelativeURI and empty path (William Brack),
1083      combinatory explosion and performances in regexp code, leak in
1084      xmlTextReaderReadString(), xmlStringLenDecodeEntities problem (Massimo
1085      Morara), Identity Constraints bugs and a segfault (Kasimier Buchcik),
1086      XPath pattern based evaluation bugs (DV & Kasimier),
1087      xmlSchemaContentModelDump() memory leak (Kasimier), potential leak in
1088      xmlSchemaCheckCSelectorXPath(), xmlTextWriterVSprintf() misuse of
1089      vsnprintf (William Brack), XHTML serialization fix (Rob Richards), CRLF
1090      split problem (William), issues with non-namespaced attributes in
1091      xmlAddChild() xmlAddNextSibling() and xmlAddPrevSibling() (Rob Richards),
1092      HTML parsing of script, Python must not output to stdout (Nic Ferrier),
1093      exclusive C14N namespace visibility (Aleksey Sanin), XSD dataype
1094      totalDigits bug (Kasimier Buchcik), error handling when writing to an
1095      xmlBuffer (Rob Richards), runtest schemas error not reported (Hisashi
1096      Fujinaka), signed/unsigned problem in date/time code (Albert Chin), fix
1097      XSI driven XSD validation (Kasimier), parsing of xs:decimal (Kasimier),
1098      fix DTD writer output (Rob Richards), leak in xmlTextReaderReadInnerXml
1099      (Gary Coady), regexp bug affecting schemas (Kasimier), configuration of
1100      runtime debugging (Kasimier), xmlNodeBufGetContent bug on entity refs
1101      (Oleksandr Kononenko), xmlRegExecPushString2 bug (Sreeni Nair),
1102      compilation and build fixes (Michael Day), removed dependancies on
1103      xmlSchemaValidError (Kasimier), bug with <xml:foo/>, more XPath
1104      pattern based evaluation fixes (Kasimier)
1105     - improvements: XSD Schemas redefinitions/restrictions (Kasimier
1106      Buchcik), node copy checks and fix for attribute (Rob Richards), counted
1107      transition bug in regexps, ctxt->standalone = -2 to indicate no
1108      standalone attribute was found, add xmlSchemaSetParserStructuredErrors()
1109      (Kasimier Buchcik), add xmlTextReaderSchemaValidateCtxt() to API
1110      (Kasimier), handle gzipped HTTP resources (Gary Coady), add
1111      htmlDocDumpMemoryFormat. (Rob Richards),
1112     - documentation: typo (Michael Day), libxml man page (Albert Chin), save
1113      function to XML buffer (Geert Jansen), small doc fix (Aron Stansvik),
1114  
1115  
1116  2.6.22: Sep 12 2005:
1117     - build fixes: compile without schematron (Stéphane Bidoul)
1118     - bug fixes: xmlDebugDumpNode on namespace node (Oleg Paraschenko)i,
1119      CDATA push parser bug, xmlElemDump problem with XHTML1 doc,
1120      XML_FEATURE_xxx clash with expat headers renamed XML_WITH_xxx, fix some
1121      output formatting for meta element (Rob Richards), script and style
1122      XHTML1 serialization (David Madore), Attribute derivation fixups in XSD
1123      (Kasimier Buchcik), better IDC error reports (Kasimier Buchcik)
1124     - improvements: add XML_SAVE_NO_EMPTY xmlSaveOption (Rob Richards), add
1125      XML_SAVE_NO_XHTML xmlSaveOption, XML Schemas improvements preparing for
1126      derive (Kasimier Buchcik).
1127     - documentation: generation of gtk-doc like docs, integration with
1128      devhelp.
1129  
1130  
1131  2.6.21: Sep 4 2005:
1132     - build fixes: Cygwin portability fixes (Gerrit P. Haase), calling
1133      convention problems on Windows (Marcus Boerger), cleanups based on Linus'
1134      sparse tool, update of win32/configure.js (Rob Richards), remove warnings
1135      on Windows(Marcus Boerger), compilation without SAX1, detection of the
1136      Python binary, use $GCC inestad of $CC = 'gcc' (Andrew W. Nosenko),
1137      compilation/link with threads and old gcc, compile problem by C370 on
1138      Z/OS,
1139     - bug fixes: http_proxy environments (Peter Breitenlohner), HTML UTF-8
1140      bug (Jiri Netolicky), XPath NaN compare bug (William Brack),
1141      htmlParseScript potential bug, Schemas regexp handling of spaces, Base64
1142      Schemas comparisons NIST passes, automata build error xsd:all,
1143      xmlGetNodePath for namespaced attributes (Alexander Pohoyda), xmlSchemas
1144      foreign namespaces handling, XML Schemas facet comparison (Kupriyanov
1145      Anatolij), xmlSchemaPSimpleTypeErr error report (Kasimier Buchcik), xml:
1146      namespace ahndling in Schemas (Kasimier), empty model group in Schemas
1147      (Kasimier), wilcard in Schemas (Kasimier), URI composition (William),
1148      xs:anyType in Schemas (Kasimier), Python resolver emmitting error
1149      messages directly, Python xmlAttr.parent (Jakub Piotr Clapa), trying to
1150      fix the file path/URI conversion, xmlTextReaderGetAttribute fix (Rob
1151      Richards), xmlSchemaFreeAnnot memleak (Kasimier), HTML UTF-8
1152      serialization, streaming XPath, Schemas determinism detection problem,
1153      XInclude bug, Schemas context type (Dean Hill), validation fix (Derek
1154      Poon), xmlTextReaderGetAttribute[Ns] namespaces (Rob Richards), Schemas
1155      type fix (Kuba Nowakowski), UTF-8 parser bug, error in encoding handling,
1156      xmlGetLineNo fixes, bug on entities handling, entity name extraction in
1157      error handling with XInclude, text nodes in HTML body tags (Gary Coady),
1158      xml:id and IDness at the treee level fixes, XPath streaming patterns
1159    bugs.
1160     - improvements: structured interfaces for schemas and RNG error reports
1161      (Marcus Boerger), optimization of the char data inner loop parsing
1162      (thanks to Behdad Esfahbod for the idea), schematron validation though
1163      not finished yet, xmlSaveOption to omit XML declaration, keyref match
1164      error reports (Kasimier), formal expression handling code not plugged
1165      yet, more lax mode for the HTML parser, parser XML_PARSE_COMPACT option
1166      for text nodes allocation.
1167     - documentation: xmllint man page had --nonet duplicated
1168  
1169  
1170  2.6.20: Jul 10 2005:
1171     - build fixes: Windows build (Rob Richards), Mingw compilation (Igor
1172      Zlatkovic), Windows Makefile (Igor), gcc warnings (Kasimier and
1173      andriy@google.com), use gcc weak references to pthread to avoid the
1174      pthread dependancy on Linux, compilation problem (Steve Nairn), compiling
1175      of subset (Morten Welinder), IPv6/ss_family compilation (William Brack),
1176      compilation when disabling parts of the library, standalone test
1177      distribution.
1178     - bug fixes: bug in lang(), memory cleanup on errors (William Brack),
1179      HTTP query strings (Aron Stansvik), memory leak in DTD (William), integer
1180      overflow in XPath (William), nanoftp buffer size, pattern "." apth fixup
1181      (Kasimier), leak in tree reported by Malcolm Rowe, replaceNode patch
1182      (Brent Hendricks), CDATA with NULL content (Mark Vakoc), xml:base fixup
1183      on XInclude (William), pattern fixes (William), attribute bug in
1184      exclusive c14n (Aleksey Sanin), xml:space and xml:lang with SAX2 (Rob
1185      Richards), namespace trouble in complex parsing (Malcolm Rowe), XSD type
1186      QNames fixes (Kasimier), XPath streaming fixups (William), RelaxNG bug
1187      (Rob Richards), Schemas for Schemas fixes (Kasimier), removal of ID (Rob
1188      Richards), a small RelaxNG leak, HTML parsing in push mode bug (James
1189      Bursa), failure to detect UTF-8 parsing bugs in CDATA sections,
1190      areBlanks() heuristic failure, duplicate attributes in DTD bug
1191    (William).
1192     - improvements: lot of work on Schemas by Kasimier Buchcik both on
1193      conformance and streaming, Schemas validation messages (Kasimier Buchcik,
1194      Matthew Burgess), namespace removal at the python level (Brent
1195      Hendricks), Update to new Schemas regression tests from W3C/Nist
1196      (Kasimier), xmlSchemaValidateFile() (Kasimier), implementation of
1197      xmlTextReaderReadInnerXml and xmlTextReaderReadOuterXml (James Wert),
1198      standalone test framework and programs, new DOM import APIs
1199      xmlDOMWrapReconcileNamespaces() xmlDOMWrapAdoptNode() and
1200      xmlDOMWrapRemoveNode(), extension of xmllint capabilities for SAX and
1201      Schemas regression tests, xmlStopParser() available in pull mode too,
1202      ienhancement to xmllint --shell namespaces support, Windows port of the
1203      standalone testing tools (Kasimier and William),
1204      xmlSchemaValidateStream() xmlSchemaSAXPlug() and xmlSchemaSAXUnplug() SAX
1205      Schemas APIs, Schemas xmlReader support.
1206  
1207  
1208  2.6.19: Apr 02 2005:
1209     - build fixes: drop .la from RPMs, --with-minimum build fix (William
1210      Brack), use XML_SOCKLEN_T instead of SOCKLEN_T because it breaks with AIX
1211      5.3 compiler, fixed elfgcchack.h generation and PLT reduction code on
1212      Linux/ELF/gcc4
1213     - bug fixes: schemas type decimal fixups (William Brack), xmmlint return
1214      code (Gerry Murphy), small schemas fixes (Matthew Burgess and GUY
1215      Fabrice), workaround "DAV:" namespace brokeness in c14n (Aleksey Sanin),
1216      segfault in Schemas (Kasimier Buchcik), Schemas attribute validation
1217      (Kasimier), Prop related functions and xmlNewNodeEatName (Rob Richards),
1218      HTML serialization of name attribute on a elements, Python error handlers
1219      leaks and improvement (Brent Hendricks), uninitialized variable in
1220      encoding code, Relax-NG validation bug, potential crash if
1221      gnorableWhitespace is NULL, xmlSAXParseDoc and xmlParseDoc signatures,
1222      switched back to assuming UTF-8 in case no encoding is given at
1223      serialization time
1224     - improvements: lot of work on Schemas by Kasimier Buchcik on facets
1225      checking and also mixed handling.
1226     - 
1227  
1228  
1229  2.6.18: Mar 13 2005:
1230     - build fixes: warnings (Peter Breitenlohner), testapi.c generation,
1231      Bakefile support (Francesco Montorsi), Windows compilation (Joel Reed),
1232      some gcc4 fixes, HP-UX portability fixes (Rick Jones).
1233     - bug fixes: xmlSchemaElementDump namespace (Kasimier Buchcik), push and
1234      xmlreader stopping on non-fatal errors, thread support for dictionaries
1235      reference counting (Gary Coady), internal subset and push problem, URL
1236      saved in xmlCopyDoc, various schemas bug fixes (Kasimier), Python paths
1237      fixup (Stephane Bidoul), xmlGetNodePath and namespaces, xmlSetNsProp fix
1238      (Mike Hommey), warning should not count as error (William Brack),
1239      xmlCreatePushParser empty chunk, XInclude parser flags (William), cleanup
1240      FTP and HTTP code to reuse the uri parsing and IPv6 (William),
1241      xmlTextWriterStartAttributeNS fix (Rob Richards), XMLLINT_INDENT being
1242      empty (William), xmlWriter bugs (Rob Richards), multithreading on Windows
1243      (Rich Salz), xmlSearchNsByHref fix (Kasimier), Python binding leak (Brent
1244      Hendricks), aliasing bug exposed by gcc4 on s390, xmlTextReaderNext bug
1245      (Rob Richards), Schemas decimal type fixes (William Brack),
1246      xmlByteConsumed static buffer (Ben Maurer).
1247     - improvement: speedup parsing comments and DTDs, dictionary support for
1248      hash tables, Schemas Identity constraints (Kasimier), streaming XPath
1249      subset, xmlTextReaderReadString added (Bjorn Reese), Schemas canonical
1250      values handling (Kasimier), add xmlTextReaderByteConsumed (Aron
1251    Stansvik),
1252     - Documentation: Wiki support (Joel Reed)
1253  
1254  
1255  2.6.17: Jan 16 2005:
1256     - build fixes: Windows, warnings removal (William Brack),
1257      maintainer-clean dependency(William), build in a different directory
1258      (William), fixing --with-minimum configure build (William), BeOS build
1259      (Marcin Konicki), Python-2.4 detection (William), compilation on AIX (Dan
1260      McNichol)
1261     - bug fixes: xmlTextReaderHasAttributes (Rob Richards), xmlCtxtReadFile()
1262      to use the catalog(s), loop on output (William Brack), XPath memory leak,
1263      ID deallocation problem (Steve Shepard), debugDumpNode crash (William),
1264      warning not using error callback (William), xmlStopParser bug (William),
1265      UTF-16 with BOM on DTDs (William), namespace bug on empty elements in
1266      push mode (Rob Richards), line and col computations fixups (Aleksey
1267      Sanin), xmlURIEscape fix (William), xmlXPathErr on bad range (William),
1268      patterns with too many steps, bug in RNG choice optimization, line number
1269      sometimes missing.
1270     - improvements: XSD Schemas (Kasimier Buchcik), python generator
1271      (William), xmlUTF8Strpos speedup (William), unicode Python strings
1272      (William), XSD error reports (Kasimier Buchcik), Python __str__ call
1273      serialize().
1274     - new APIs: added xmlDictExists(), GetLineNumber and GetColumnNumber for
1275      the xmlReader (Aleksey Sanin), Dynamic Shared Libraries APIs (mostly Joel
1276      Reed), error extraction API from regexps, new XMLSave option for format
1277      (Phil Shafer)
1278     - documentation: site improvement (John Fleck), FAQ entries
1279    (William).
1280  
1281  
1282  2.6.16: Nov 10 2004:
1283     - general hardening and bug fixing crossing all the API based on new
1284      automated regression testing
1285     - build fix: IPv6 build and test on AIX (Dodji Seketeli)
1286     - bug fixes: problem with XML::Libxml reported by Petr Pajas,  encoding
1287      conversion functions return values, UTF-8 bug affecting XPath reported by
1288      Markus Bertheau, catalog problem with NULL entries (William Brack)
1289     - documentation: fix to xmllint man page, some API function descritpion
1290      were updated.
1291     - improvements: DTD validation APIs provided at the Python level (Brent
1292      Hendricks)
1293  
1294  
1295  2.6.15: Oct 27 2004:
1296     - security fixes on the nanoftp and nanohttp modules
1297     - build fixes: xmllint detection bug in configure, building outside the
1298      source tree (Thomas Fitzsimmons)
1299     - bug fixes: HTML parser on broken ASCII chars in names (William), Python
1300      paths (Malcolm Tredinnick), xmlHasNsProp and default namespace (William),
1301      saving to python file objects (Malcolm Tredinnick), DTD lookup fix
1302      (Malcolm), save back <group> in catalogs (William), tree build
1303      fixes (DV and Rob Richards), Schemas memory bug, structured error handler
1304      on Python 64bits, thread local memory deallocation, memory leak reported
1305      by Volker Roth, xmlValidateDtd in the presence of an internal subset,
1306      entities and _private problem (William), xmlBuildRelativeURI error
1307      (William).
1308     - improvements: better XInclude error reports (William), tree debugging
1309      module and tests, convenience functions at the Reader API (Graham
1310      Bennett), add support for PI in the HTML parser.
1311  
1312  
1313  2.6.14: Sep 29 2004:
1314     - build fixes: configure paths for xmllint and xsltproc, compilation
1315      without HTML parser, compilation warning cleanups (William Brack &
1316      Malcolm Tredinnick), VMS makefile update (Craig Berry),
1317     - bug fixes: xmlGetUTF8Char (William Brack), QName properties (Kasimier
1318      Buchcik), XInclude testing, Notation serialization, UTF8ToISO8859x
1319      transcoding (Mark Itzcovitz), lots of XML Schemas cleanup and fixes
1320      (Kasimier), ChangeLog cleanup (Stepan Kasal), memory fixes (Mark Vakoc),
1321      handling of failed realloc(), out of bound array adressing in Schemas
1322      date handling, Python space/tabs cleanups (Malcolm Tredinnick), NMTOKENS
1323      E20 validation fix (Malcolm),
1324     - improvements: added W3C XML Schemas testsuite (Kasimier Buchcik), add
1325      xmlSchemaValidateOneElement (Kasimier), Python exception hierearchy
1326      (Malcolm Tredinnick), Python libxml2 driver improvement (Malcolm
1327      Tredinnick), Schemas support for xsi:schemaLocation,
1328      xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation, xsi:type (Kasimier Buchcik)
1329  
1330  
1331  2.6.13: Aug 31 2004:
1332     - build fixes: Windows and zlib (Igor Zlatkovic), -O flag with gcc,
1333      Solaris compiler warning, fixing RPM BuildRequires,
1334     - fixes: DTD loading on Windows (Igor), Schemas error reports APIs
1335      (Kasimier Buchcik), Schemas validation crash, xmlCheckUTF8 (William Brack
1336      and Julius Mittenzwei), Schemas facet check (Kasimier), default namespace
1337      problem (William), Schemas hexbinary empty values, encoding error could
1338      genrate a serialization loop.
1339     - Improvements: Schemas validity improvements (Kasimier), added --path
1340      and --load-trace options to xmllint
1341     - documentation: tutorial update (John Fleck)
1342  
1343  
1344  2.6.12: Aug 22 2004:
1345     - build fixes: fix --with-minimum, elfgcchack.h fixes (Peter
1346      Breitenlohner), perl path lookup (William), diff on Solaris (Albert
1347      Chin), some 64bits cleanups.
1348     - Python: avoid a warning with 2.3 (William Brack), tab and space mixes
1349      (William), wrapper generator fixes (William), Cygwin support (Gerrit P.
1350      Haase), node wrapper fix (Marc-Antoine Parent), XML Schemas support
1351      (Torkel Lyng)
1352     - Schemas: a lot of bug fixes and improvements from Kasimier Buchcik
1353     - fixes: RVT fixes (William), XPath context resets bug (William), memory
1354      debug (Steve Hay), catalog white space handling (Peter Breitenlohner),
1355      xmlReader state after attribute reading (William), structured error
1356      handler (William), XInclude generated xml:base fixup (William), Windows
1357      memory reallocation problem (Steve Hay), Out of Memory conditions
1358      handling (William and Olivier Andrieu), htmlNewDoc() charset bug,
1359      htmlReadMemory init (William), a posteriori validation DTD base
1360      (William), notations serialization missing, xmlGetNodePath (Dodji),
1361      xmlCheckUTF8 (Diego Tartara), missing line numbers on entity
1362    (William)
1363     - improvements: DocBook catalog build scrip (William), xmlcatalog tool
1364      (Albert Chin), xmllint --c14n option, no_proxy environment (Mike Hommey),
1365      xmlParseInNodeContext() addition, extend xmllint --shell, allow XInclude
1366      to not generate start/end nodes, extend xmllint --version to include CVS
1367      tag (William)
1368     - documentation: web pages fixes, validity API docs fixes (William)
1369      schemas API fix (Eric Haszlakiewicz), xmllint man page (John Fleck)
1370  
1371  
1372  2.6.11: July 5 2004:
1373     - Schemas: a lot of changes and improvements by Kasimier Buchcik for
1374      attributes, namespaces and simple types.
1375     - build fixes: --with-minimum (William Brack),  some gcc cleanup
1376      (William), --with-thread-alloc (William)
1377     - portability: Windows binary package change (Igor Zlatkovic), Catalog
1378      path on Windows
1379     - documentation: update to the tutorial (John Fleck), xmllint return code
1380      (John Fleck), man pages (Ville Skytta),
1381     - bug fixes: C14N bug serializing namespaces (Aleksey Sanin), testSAX
1382      properly initialize the library (William), empty node set in XPath
1383      (William), xmlSchemas errors (William), invalid charref problem pointed
1384      by Morus Walter, XInclude xml:base generation (William), Relax-NG bug
1385      with div processing (William), XPointer and xml:base problem(William),
1386      Reader and entities, xmllint return code for schemas (William), reader
1387      streaming problem (Steve Ball), DTD serialization problem (William),
1388      libxml.m4 fixes (Mike Hommey), do not provide destructors as methods on
1389      Python classes, xmlReader buffer bug, Python bindings memory interfaces
1390      improvement (with Stéphane Bidoul), Fixed the push parser to be back to
1391      synchronous behaviour.
1392     - improvement: custom per-thread I/O enhancement (Rob Richards), register
1393      namespace in debug shell (Stefano Debenedetti), Python based regression
1394      test for non-Unix users (William), dynamically increase the number of
1395      XPath extension functions in Python and fix a memory leak (Marc-Antoine
1396      Parent and William)
1397     - performance: hack done with Arjan van de Ven to reduce ELF footprint
1398      and generated code on Linux, plus use gcc runtime profiling to optimize
1399      the code generated in the RPM packages.
1400  
1401  
1402  2.6.10: May 17 2004:
1403     - Web page generated for ChangeLog
1404     - build fixes: --without-html problems, make check without make all
1405     - portability: problem with xpath.c on Windows (MSC and Borland), memcmp
1406      vs. strncmp on Solaris, XPath tests on Windows (Mark Vakoc), C++ do not
1407      use "list" as parameter name, make tests work with Python 1.5 (Ed
1408    Davis),
1409     - improvements: made xmlTextReaderMode public, small buffers resizing
1410      (Morten Welinder), add --maxmem option to xmllint, add
1411      xmlPopInputCallback() for Matt Sergeant, refactoring of serialization
1412      escaping, added escaping customization
1413     - bugfixes: xsd:extension (Taihei Goi), assorted regexp bugs (William
1414      Brack), xmlReader end of stream problem, node deregistration with reader,
1415      URI escaping and filemanes,  XHTML1 formatting (Nick Wellnhofer), regexp
1416      transition reduction (William), various XSD Schemas fixes (Kasimier
1417      Buchcik), XInclude fallback problem (William), weird problems with DTD
1418      (William), structured error handler callback context (William), reverse
1419      xmlEncodeSpecialChars() behaviour back to escaping '"'
1420  
1421  
1422  2.6.9: Apr 18 2004:
1423     - implement xml:id Working Draft, relaxed XPath id() checking
1424     - bugfixes: xmlCtxtReset (Brent Hendricks), line number and CDATA (Dave
1425      Beckett), Relax-NG compilation (William Brack), Regexp patches (with
1426      William), xmlUriEscape (Mark Vakoc), a Relax-NG notAllowed problem (with
1427      William), Relax-NG name classes compares (William), XInclude duplicate
1428      fallback (William), external DTD encoding detection (William), a DTD
1429      validation bug (William), xmlReader Close() fix, recusive extention
1430      schemas
1431     - improvements: use xmlRead* APIs in test tools (Mark Vakoc), indenting
1432      save optimization, better handle IIS broken HTTP redirect  behaviour (Ian
1433      Hummel), HTML parser frameset (James Bursa), libxml2-python RPM
1434      dependancy, XML Schemas union support (Kasimier Buchcik), warning removal
1435      clanup (William), keep ChangeLog compressed when installing from RPMs
1436     - documentation: examples and xmlDocDumpMemory docs (John Fleck), new
1437      example (load, xpath, modify, save), xmlCatalogDump() comments,
1438     - Windows: Borland C++ builder (Eric Zurcher), work around Microsoft
1439      compiler NaN handling bug (Mark Vakoc)
1440  
1441  
1442  2.6.8: Mar 23 2004:
1443     - First step of the cleanup of the serialization code and APIs
1444     - XML Schemas: mixed content (Adam Dickmeiss), QName handling fixes (Adam
1445      Dickmeiss), anyURI for "" (John Belmonte)
1446     - Python: Canonicalization C14N support added (Anthony Carrico)
1447     - xmlDocCopyNode() extension (William)
1448     - Relax-NG: fix when processing XInclude results (William), external
1449      reference in interleave (William), missing error on <choice>
1450      failure (William), memory leak in schemas datatype facets.
1451     - xmlWriter: patch for better DTD support (Alfred Mickautsch)
1452     - bug fixes: xmlXPathLangFunction memory leak (Mike Hommey and William
1453      Brack), no ID errors if using HTML_PARSE_NOERROR, xmlcatalog fallbacks to
1454      URI on SYSTEM lookup failure, XInclude parse flags inheritance (William),
1455      XInclude and XPointer fixes for entities (William), XML parser bug
1456      reported by Holger Rauch, nanohttp fd leak (William),  regexps char
1457      groups '-' handling (William), dictionary reference counting problems,
1458      do not close stderr.
1459     - performance patches from Petr Pajas
1460     - Documentation fixes: XML_CATALOG_FILES in man pages (Mike Hommey)
1461     - compilation and portability fixes: --without-valid, catalog cleanups
1462      (Peter Breitenlohner), MingW patch (Roland Schwingel), cross-compilation
1463      to Windows (Christophe de Vienne),  --with-html-dir fixup (Julio Merino
1464      Vidal), Windows build (Eric Zurcher)
1465  
1466  
1467  2.6.7: Feb 23 2004:
1468     - documentation: tutorial updates (John Fleck), benchmark results
1469     - xmlWriter: updates and fixes (Alfred Mickautsch, Lucas Brasilino)
1470     - XPath optimization (Petr Pajas)
1471     - DTD ID handling optimization
1472     - bugfixes: xpath number with  > 19 fractional (William Brack), push
1473      mode with unescaped '>' characters, fix xmllint --stream --timing, fix
1474      xmllint --memory --stream memory usage, xmlAttrSerializeTxtContent
1475      handling NULL, trying to fix Relax-NG/Perl interface.
1476     - python: 2.3 compatibility, whitespace fixes (Malcolm Tredinnick)
1477     - Added relaxng option to xmllint --shell
1478  
1479  
1480  2.6.6: Feb 12 2004:
1481     - nanohttp and nanoftp: buffer overflow error on URI parsing (Igor and
1482      William) reported by Yuuichi Teranishi
1483     - bugfixes: make test and path issues, xmlWriter attribute serialization
1484      (William Brack), xmlWriter indentation (William), schemas validation
1485      (Eric Haszlakiewicz), XInclude dictionaries issues (William and Oleg
1486      Paraschenko), XInclude empty fallback (William), HTML warnings (William),
1487      XPointer in XInclude (William), Python namespace serialization,
1488      isolat1ToUTF8 bound error (Alfred Mickautsch), output of parameter
1489      entities in internal subset (William), internal subset bug in push mode,
1490      <xs:all> fix (Alexey Sarytchev)
1491     - Build: fix for automake-1.8 (Alexander Winston), warnings removal
1492      (Philip Ludlam), SOCKLEN_T detection fixes (Daniel Richard), fix
1493      --with-minimum configuration.
1494     - XInclude: allow the 2001 namespace without warning.
1495     - Documentation: missing example/index.html (John Fleck), version
1496      dependancies (John Fleck)
1497     - reader API: structured error reporting (Steve Ball)
1498     - Windows compilation: mingw, msys (Mikhail Grushinskiy), function
1499      prototype (Cameron Johnson), MSVC6 compiler warnings, _WINSOCKAPI_
1500    patch
1501     - Parsers: added xmlByteConsumed(ctxt) API to get the byte offest in
1502      input.
1503  
1504  
1505  2.6.5: Jan 25 2004:
1506     - Bugfixes: dictionaries for schemas (William Brack), regexp segfault
1507      (William), xs:all problem (William), a number of XPointer bugfixes
1508      (William), xmllint error go to stderr, DTD validation problem with
1509      namespace, memory leak (William), SAX1 cleanup and minimal options fixes
1510      (Mark Vadoc), parser context reset on error (Shaun McCance), XPath union
1511      evaluation problem (William) , xmlReallocLoc with NULL (Aleksey Sanin),
1512      XML Schemas double free (Steve Ball), XInclude with no href, argument
1513      callbacks order for XPath callbacks (Frederic Peters)
1514     - Documentation: python scripts (William Brack), xslt stylesheets (John
1515      Fleck), doc (Sven Zimmerman), I/O example.
1516     - Python bindings: fixes (William), enum support (Stéphane Bidoul),
1517      structured error reporting (Stéphane Bidoul)
1518     - XInclude: various fixes for conformance, problem related to dictionary
1519      references (William & me), recursion (William)
1520     - xmlWriter: indentation (Lucas Brasilino), memory leaks (Alfred
1521      Mickautsch),
1522     - xmlSchemas: normalizedString datatype (John Belmonte)
1523     - code cleanup for strings functions (William)
1524     - Windows: compiler patches (Mark Vakoc)
1525     - Parser optimizations, a few new XPath and dictionary APIs for future
1526      XSLT optimizations.
1527  
1528  
1529  2.6.4: Dec 24 2003:
1530     - Windows build fixes (Igor Zlatkovic)
1531     - Some serious XInclude problems reported by Oleg Paraschenko and
1532     - Unix and Makefile packaging fixes (me, William Brack,
1533     - Documentation improvements (John Fleck, William Brack), example fix
1534      (Lucas Brasilino)
1535     - bugfixes: xmlTextReaderExpand() with xmlReaderWalker, XPath handling of
1536      NULL strings (William Brack) , API building reader or parser from
1537      filedescriptor should not close it, changed XPath sorting to be stable
1538      again (William Brack), xmlGetNodePath() generating '(null)' (William
1539      Brack), DTD validation and namespace bug (William Brack), XML Schemas
1540      double inclusion behaviour
1541  
1542  
1543  2.6.3: Dec 10 2003:
1544     - documentation updates and cleanup (DV, William Brack, John Fleck)
1545     - added a repository of examples, examples from Aleksey Sanin, Dodji
1546      Seketeli, Alfred Mickautsch
1547     - Windows updates: Mark Vakoc, Igor Zlatkovic, Eric Zurcher, Mingw
1548      (Kenneth Haley)
1549     - Unicode range checking (William Brack)
1550     - code cleanup (William Brack)
1551     - Python bindings: doc (John Fleck),  bug fixes
1552     - UTF-16 cleanup and BOM issues (William Brack)
1553     - bug fixes: ID and xmlReader validation, XPath (William Brack),
1554      xmlWriter (Alfred Mickautsch), hash.h inclusion problem, HTML parser
1555      (James Bursa), attribute defaulting and validation, some serialization
1556      cleanups, XML_GET_LINE macro, memory debug when using threads (William
1557      Brack), serialization of attributes and entities content, xmlWriter
1558      (Daniel Schulman)
1559     - XInclude bugfix, new APIs and update to the last version including the
1560      namespace change.
1561     - XML Schemas improvements: include (Robert Stepanek), import and
1562      namespace handling, fixed the regression tests troubles, added examples
1563      based on Eric van der Vlist book, regexp fixes
1564     - preliminary pattern support for streaming (needed for schemas
1565      constraints), added xmlTextReaderPreservePattern() to collect subdocument
1566      when streaming.
1567     - various fixes in the structured error handling
1568  
1569  
1570  2.6.2: Nov 4 2003:
1571     - XPath context unregistration fixes
1572     - text node coalescing fixes (Mark Lilback)
1573     - API to screate a W3C Schemas from an existing document (Steve Ball)
1574     - BeOS patches (Marcin 'Shard' Konicki)
1575     - xmlStrVPrintf function added (Aleksey Sanin)
1576     - compilation fixes (Mark Vakoc)
1577     - stdin parsing fix (William Brack)
1578     - a posteriori DTD validation fixes
1579     - xmlReader bug fixes: Walker fixes, python bindings
1580     - fixed xmlStopParser() to really stop the parser and errors
1581     - always generate line numbers when using the new xmlReadxxx
1582    functions
1583     - added XInclude support to the xmlReader interface
1584     - implemented XML_PARSE_NONET parser option
1585     - DocBook XSLT processing bug fixed
1586     - HTML serialization for <p> elements (William Brack and me)
1587     - XPointer failure in XInclude are now handled as resource errors
1588     - fixed xmllint --html to use the HTML serializer on output (added
1589      --xmlout to implement the previous behaviour of saving it using the XML
1590      serializer)
1591  
1592  
1593  2.6.1: Oct 28 2003:
1594     - Mostly bugfixes after the big 2.6.0 changes
1595     - Unix compilation patches: libxml.m4 (Patrick Welche), warnings cleanup
1596      (William Brack)
1597     - Windows compilation patches (Joachim Bauch, Stephane Bidoul, Igor
1598      Zlatkovic)
1599     - xmlWriter bugfix (Alfred Mickautsch)
1600     - chvalid.[ch]: couple of fixes from Stephane Bidoul
1601     - context reset: error state reset, push parser reset (Graham
1602    Bennett)
1603     - context reuse: generate errors if file is not readable
1604     - defaulted attributes for element coming from internal entities
1605      (Stephane Bidoul)
1606     - Python: tab and spaces mix (William Brack)
1607     - Error handler could crash in DTD validation in 2.6.0
1608     - xmlReader: do not use the document or element _private field
1609     - testSAX.c: avoid a problem with some PIs (Massimo Morara)
1610     - general bug fixes: mandatory encoding in text decl, serializing
1611      Document Fragment nodes, xmlSearchNs 2.6.0 problem (Kasimier Buchcik),
1612      XPath errors not reported,  slow HTML parsing of large documents.
1613  
1614  
1615  2.6.0: Oct 20 2003:
1616     - Major revision release: should be API and ABI compatible but got a lot
1617      of change
1618     - Increased the library modularity, far more options can be stripped out,
1619      a --with-minimum configuration will weight around 160KBytes
1620     - Use per parser and per document dictionary, allocate names and small
1621      text nodes from the dictionary
1622     - Switch to a SAX2 like parser rewrote most of the XML parser core,
1623      provides namespace resolution and defaulted attributes, minimize memory
1624      allocations and copies, namespace checking and specific error handling,
1625      immutable buffers, make predefined entities static structures, etc...
1626     - rewrote all the error handling in the library, all errors can be
1627      intercepted at a structured level, with precise information
1628    available.
1629     - New simpler and more generic XML and HTML parser APIs, allowing to
1630      easilly modify the parsing options and reuse parser context for multiple
1631      consecutive documents.
1632     - Similar new APIs for the xmlReader, for options and reuse, provided new
1633      functions to access content as const strings, use them for Python
1634    bindings
1635     - a  lot of other smaller API improvements: xmlStrPrintf (Aleksey Sanin),
1636      Walker i.e. reader on a document tree based on Alfred Mickautsch code,
1637      make room in nodes for line numbers, reference counting and future PSVI
1638      extensions, generation of character ranges to be checked with faster
1639      algorithm (William),  xmlParserMaxDepth (Crutcher Dunnavant), buffer
1640      access
1641     - New xmlWriter API provided by Alfred Mickautsch
1642     - Schemas: base64 support by Anthony Carrico
1643     - Parser<->HTTP integration fix, proper processing of the Mime-Type
1644      and charset information if available.
1645     - Relax-NG: bug fixes including the one reported by Martijn Faassen and
1646      zeroOrMore, better error reporting.
1647     - Python bindings (Stéphane Bidoul), never use stdout for errors
1648    output
1649     - Portability: all the headers have macros for export and calling
1650      convention definitions (Igor Zlatkovic), VMS update (Craig A. Berry),
1651      Windows: threads (Jesse Pelton), Borland compiler (Eric Zurcher,  Igor),
1652      Mingw (Igor), typos (Mark Vakoc),  beta version (Stephane Bidoul),
1653      warning cleanups on AIX and MIPS compilers (William Brack), BeOS (Marcin
1654      'Shard' Konicki)
1655     - Documentation fixes and README (William Brack), search fix (William),
1656      tutorial updates (John Fleck), namespace docs (Stefan Kost)
1657     - Bug fixes: xmlCleanupParser (Dave Beckett), threading uninitialized
1658      mutexes, HTML doctype lowercase,  SAX/IO (William), compression detection
1659      and restore (William), attribute declaration in DTDs (William), namespace
1660      on attribute in HTML output (William), input filename (Rob Richards),
1661      namespace DTD validation, xmlReplaceNode (Chris Ryland), I/O callbacks
1662      (Markus Keim), CDATA serialization (Shaun McCance), xmlReader (Peter
1663      Derr), high codepoint charref like &#x10FFFF;, buffer access in push
1664      mode (Justin Fletcher), TLS threads on Windows (Jesse Pelton), XPath bug
1665      (William), xmlCleanupParser (Marc Liyanage), CDATA output (William), HTTP
1666      error handling.
1667     - xmllint options: --dtdvalidfpi for Tobias Reif, --sax1 for compat
1668      testing,  --nodict for building without tree dictionary, --nocdata to
1669      replace CDATA by text, --nsclean to remove surperfluous  namespace
1670      declarations
1671     - added xml2-config --libtool-libs option from Kevin P. Fleming
1672     - a lot of profiling and tuning of the code, speedup patch for
1673      xmlSearchNs() by Luca Padovani. The xmlReader should do far less
1674      allocation and it speed should get closer to SAX. Chris Anderson worked
1675      on speeding and cleaning up repetitive checking code.
1676     - cleanup of "make tests"
1677     - libxml-2.0-uninstalled.pc from Malcolm Tredinnick
1678     - deactivated the broken docBook SGML parser code and plugged the XML
1679      parser instead.
1680  
1681  
1682  2.5.11: Sep 9 2003:
1683  A bugfix only release:   - risk of crash in Relax-NG
1684     - risk of crash when using multithreaded programs
1685  
1686  
1687  2.5.10: Aug 15 2003:
1688  A bugfixes only release   - Windows Makefiles (William Brack)
1689     - UTF-16 support fixes (Mark Itzcovitz)
1690     - Makefile and portability (William Brack) automake, Linux alpha, Mingw
1691      on Windows (Mikhail Grushinskiy)
1692     - HTML parser (Oliver Stoeneberg)
1693     - XInclude performance problem reported by Kevin Ruscoe
1694     - XML parser performance problem reported by Grant Goodale
1695     - xmlSAXParseDTD() bug fix from Malcolm Tredinnick
1696     - and a couple other cleanup
1697  
1698  
1699  2.5.9: Aug 9 2003:
1700     - bugfixes: IPv6 portability, xmlHasNsProp (Markus Keim), Windows build
1701      (Wiliam Brake, Jesse Pelton, Igor), Schemas (Peter Sobisch), threading
1702      (Rob Richards), hexBinary type (), UTF-16 BOM (Dodji Seketeli),
1703      xmlReader, Relax-NG schemas compilation, namespace handling,  EXSLT (Sean
1704      Griffin), HTML parsing problem (William Brack), DTD validation for mixed
1705      content + namespaces, HTML serialization, library initialization,
1706      progressive HTML parser
1707     - better interfaces for Relax-NG error handling (Joachim Bauch, )
1708     - adding xmlXIncludeProcessTree() for XInclud'ing in a subtree
1709     - doc fixes and improvements (John Fleck)
1710     - configure flag for -with-fexceptions when embedding in C++
1711     - couple of new UTF-8 helper functions (William Brack)
1712     - general encoding cleanup + ISO-8859-x without iconv (Peter Jacobi)
1713     - xmlTextReader cleanup + enum for node types (Bjorn Reese)
1714     - general compilation/warning cleanup Solaris/HP-UX/... (William
1715    Brack)
1716  
1717  
1718  2.5.8: Jul 6 2003:
1719     - bugfixes: XPath, XInclude, file/URI mapping, UTF-16 save (Mark
1720      Itzcovitz), UTF-8 checking, URI saving, error printing (William Brack),
1721      PI related memleak, compilation without schemas or without xpath (Joerg
1722      Schmitz-Linneweber/Garry Pennington), xmlUnlinkNode problem with DTDs,
1723      rpm problem on , i86_64, removed a few compilation problems from 2.5.7,
1724      xmlIOParseDTD, and xmlSAXParseDTD (Malcolm Tredinnick)
1725     - portability: DJGPP (MsDos) , OpenVMS (Craig A. Berry)
1726     - William Brack fixed multithreading lock problems
1727     - IPv6 patch for FTP and HTTP accesses (Archana Shah/Wipro)
1728     - Windows fixes (Igor Zlatkovic,  Eric Zurcher), threading (Stéphane
1729      Bidoul)
1730     - A few W3C Schemas Structure improvements
1731     - W3C Schemas Datatype improvements (Charlie Bozeman)
1732     - Python bindings for thread globals (Stéphane Bidoul), and method/class
1733      generator
1734     - added --nonet option to xmllint
1735     - documentation improvements (John Fleck)
1736  
1737  
1738  2.5.7: Apr 25 2003:
1739     - Relax-NG: Compiling to regexp and streaming validation on top of the
1740      xmlReader interface, added to xmllint --stream
1741     - xmlReader: Expand(), Next() and DOM access glue, bug fixes
1742     - Support for large files: RGN validated a 4.5GB instance
1743     - Thread support is now configured in by default
1744     - Fixes: update of the Trio code (Bjorn), WXS Date and Duration fixes
1745      (Charles Bozeman), DTD and namespaces (Brent Hendricks), HTML push parser
1746      and zero bytes handling, some missing Windows file path conversions,
1747      behaviour of the parser and validator in the presence of "out of memory"
1748      error conditions
1749     - extended the API to be able to plug a garbage collecting memory
1750      allocator, added xmlMallocAtomic() and modified the allocations
1751      accordingly.
1752     - Performances: removed excessive malloc() calls, speedup of the push and
1753      xmlReader interfaces, removed excessive thread locking
1754     - Documentation: man page (John Fleck), xmlReader documentation
1755     - Python: adding binding for xmlCatalogAddLocal (Brent M Hendricks)
1756  
1757  
1758  2.5.6: Apr 1 2003:
1759     - Fixed W3C XML Schemas datatype, should be compliant now except for
1760      binHex and base64 which are not supported yet.
1761     - bug fixes: non-ASCII IDs, HTML output, XInclude on large docs and
1762      XInclude entities handling, encoding detection on external subsets, XML
1763      Schemas bugs and memory leaks, HTML parser (James Bursa)
1764     - portability: python/trio (Albert Chin), Sun compiler warnings
1765     - documentation: added --relaxng option to xmllint man page (John)
1766     - improved error reporting: xml:space, start/end tag mismatches, Relax NG
1767      errors
1768  
1769  
1770  2.5.5: Mar 24 2003:
1771     - Lot of fixes on the Relax NG implementation. More testing including
1772      DocBook and TEI examples.
1773     - Increased the support for W3C XML Schemas datatype
1774     - Several bug fixes in the URI handling layer
1775     - Bug fixes: HTML parser, xmlReader, DTD validation, XPath, encoding
1776      conversion, line counting in the parser.
1777     - Added support for $XMLLINT_INDENT environment variable, FTP delete
1778     - Fixed the RPM spec file name
1779  
1780  
1781  2.5.4: Feb 20 2003:
1782     - Conformance testing and lot of fixes on Relax NG and XInclude
1783      implementation
1784     - Implementation of XPointer element() scheme
1785     - Bug fixes: XML parser, XInclude entities merge, validity checking on
1786      namespaces,
1787      2 serialization bugs, node info generation problems, a DTD regexp
1788      generation problem.
1789    
1790     - Portability: windows updates and path canonicalization (Igor)
1791     - A few typo fixes (Kjartan Maraas)
1792     - Python bindings generator fixes (Stephane Bidoul)
1793  
1794  
1795  2.5.3: Feb 10 2003:
1796     - RelaxNG and XML Schemas datatypes improvements, and added a first
1797      version of RelaxNG Python bindings
1798     - Fixes: XLink (Sean Chittenden), XInclude (Sean Chittenden), API fix for
1799      serializing namespace nodes, encoding conversion bug, XHTML1
1800    serialization
1801     - Portability fixes: Windows (Igor), AMD 64bits RPM spec file
1802  
1803  
1804  2.5.2: Feb 5 2003:
1805     - First implementation of RelaxNG, added --relaxng flag to xmllint
1806     - Schemas support now compiled in by default.
1807     - Bug fixes: DTD validation, namespace checking, XInclude and entities,
1808      delegateURI in XML Catalogs, HTML parser, XML reader (Stéphane Bidoul),
1809      XPath parser and evaluation,  UTF8ToUTF8 serialization, XML reader memory
1810      consumption, HTML parser, HTML serialization in the presence of
1811    namespaces
1812     - added an HTML API to check elements and attributes.
1813     - Documentation improvement, PDF for the tutorial (John Fleck), doc
1814      patches (Stefan Kost)
1815     - Portability fixes: NetBSD (Julio Merino), Windows (Igor Zlatkovic)
1816     - Added python bindings for XPointer, contextual error reporting
1817      (Stéphane Bidoul)
1818     - URI/file escaping problems (Stefano Zacchiroli)
1819  
1820  
1821  2.5.1: Jan 8 2003:
1822     - Fixes a memory leak and configuration/compilation problems in 2.5.0
1823     - documentation updates (John)
1824     - a couple of XmlTextReader fixes
1825  
1826  
1827  2.5.0: Jan 6 2003:
1828     - New XmltextReader interface based on C#
1829      API (with help of Stéphane Bidoul)
1830     - Windows: more exports, including the new API (Igor)
1831     - XInclude fallback fix
1832     - Python: bindings for the new API, packaging (Stéphane Bidoul),
1833      drv_libxml2.py Python xml.sax driver (Stéphane Bidoul), fixes, speedup
1834      and iterators for Python-2.2 (Hannu Krosing)
1835     - Tutorial fixes (john Fleck and Niraj Tolia) xmllint man update
1836    (John)
1837     - Fix an XML parser bug raised by Vyacheslav Pindyura
1838     - Fix for VMS serialization (Nigel Hall) and config (Craig A. Berry)
1839     - Entities handling fixes
1840     - new API to optionally track node creation and deletion (Lukas
1841    Schroeder)
1842     - Added documentation for the XmltextReader interface and some XML guidelines
1843  
1844  
1845  2.4.30: Dec 12 2002:
1846     - 2.4.29 broke the python bindings, rereleasing
1847     - Improvement/fixes of the XML API generator, and couple of minor code
1848      fixes.
1849  
1850  
1851  2.4.29: Dec 11 2002:
1852     - Windows fixes (Igor): Windows CE port, pthread linking, python bindings
1853      (Stéphane Bidoul), Mingw (Magnus Henoch), and export list updates
1854     - Fix for prev in python bindings (ERDI Gergo)
1855     - Fix for entities handling (Marcus Clarke)
1856     - Refactored the XML and HTML dumps to a single code path, fixed XHTML1
1857      dump
1858     - Fix for URI parsing when handling URNs with fragment identifiers
1859     - Fix for HTTP URL escaping problem
1860     - added an TextXmlReader (C#) like API (work in progress)
1861     - Rewrote the API in XML generation script, includes a C parser and saves
1862      more information needed for C# bindings
1863  
1864  
1865  2.4.28: Nov 22 2002:
1866     - a couple of python binding fixes
1867     - 2 bug fixes in the XML push parser
1868     - potential memory leak removed (Martin Stoilov)
1869     - fix to the configure script for Unix (Dimitri Papadopoulos)
1870     - added encoding support for XInclude parse="text"
1871     - autodetection of XHTML1 and specific serialization rules added
1872     - nasty threading bug fixed (William Brack)
1873  
1874  
1875  2.4.27: Nov 17 2002:
1876     - fixes for the Python bindings
1877     - a number of bug fixes: SGML catalogs, xmlParseBalancedChunkMemory(),
1878      HTML parser,  Schemas (Charles Bozeman), document fragment support
1879      (Christian Glahn), xmlReconciliateNs (Brian Stafford), XPointer,
1880      xmlFreeNode(), xmlSAXParseMemory (Peter Jones), xmlGetNodePath (Petr
1881      Pajas), entities processing
1882     - added grep to xmllint --shell
1883     - VMS update patch from Craig A. Berry
1884     - cleanup of the Windows build with support for more compilers (Igor),
1885      better thread support on Windows
1886     - cleanup of Unix Makefiles and spec file
1887     - Improvements to the documentation (John Fleck)
1888  
1889  
1890  2.4.26: Oct 18 2002:
1891     - Patches for Windows CE port, improvements on Windows paths handling
1892     - Fixes to the validation  code (DTD and Schemas), xmlNodeGetPath() ,
1893      HTML serialization, Namespace compliance,  and a number of small
1894    problems
1895  
1896  
1897  2.4.25: Sep 26 2002:
1898     - A number of bug fixes: XPath, validation, Python bindings, DOM and
1899      tree, xmlI/O,  Html
1900     - Serious rewrite of XInclude
1901     - Made XML Schemas regexp part of the default build and APIs, small fix
1902      and improvement of the regexp core
1903     - Changed the validation code to reuse XML Schemas regexp APIs
1904     - Better handling of Windows file paths, improvement of Makefiles (Igor,
1905      Daniel Gehriger, Mark Vakoc)
1906     - Improved the python I/O bindings, the tests, added resolver and regexp
1907      APIs
1908     - New logos from Marc Liyanage
1909     - Tutorial improvements: John Fleck, Christopher Harris
1910     - Makefile: Fixes for AMD x86_64 (Mandrake), DESTDIR (Christophe
1911    Merlet)
1912     - removal of all stderr/perror use for error reporting
1913     - Better error reporting: XPath and DTD validation
1914     - update of the trio portability layer (Bjorn Reese)
1915  
1916  2.4.24: Aug 22 2002   - XPath fixes (William), xf:escape-uri() (Wesley Terpstra)
1917     - Python binding fixes: makefiles (William), generator, rpm build, x86-64
1918      (fcrozat)
1919     - HTML <style> and boolean attributes serializer fixes
1920     - C14N improvements by Aleksey
1921     - doc cleanups: Rick Jones
1922     - Windows compiler makefile updates: Igor and Elizabeth Barham
1923     - XInclude: implementation of fallback and xml:base fixup added
1924  
1925  
1926  2.4.23: July 6 2002:
1927     - performances patches: Peter Jacobi
1928     - c14n fixes, testsuite and performances: Aleksey Sanin
1929     - added xmlDocFormatDump: Chema Celorio
1930     - new tutorial: John Fleck
1931     - new hash functions and performances: Sander Vesik, portability fix from
1932      Peter Jacobi
1933     - a number of bug fixes: XPath (William Brack, Richard Jinks), XML and
1934      HTML parsers, ID lookup function
1935     - removal of all remaining sprintf: Aleksey Sanin
1936  
1937  
1938  2.4.22: May 27 2002:
1939     - a number of bug fixes: configure scripts, base handling, parser, memory
1940      usage, HTML parser, XPath, documentation (Christian Cornelssen),
1941      indentation, URI parsing
1942     - Optimizations for XMLSec, fixing and making public some of the network
1943      protocol handlers (Aleksey)
1944     - performance patch from Gary Pennington
1945     - Charles Bozeman provided date and time support for XML Schemas
1946    datatypes
1947  
1948  
1949  2.4.21: Apr 29 2002:
1950  This release is both a bug fix release and also contains the early XML
1951  Schemas structures at 
1952  http://www.w3.org/TR/xmlschema-1/
1953   and datatypes at 
1954  http://www.w3.org/TR/xmlschema-2/
1955   code, beware, all
1956  interfaces are likely to change, there is huge holes, it is clearly a work in
1957  progress and don't even think of putting this code in a production system,
1958  it's actually not compiled in by default. The real fixes are:
1959     - a couple of bugs or limitations introduced in 2.4.20
1960     - patches for Borland C++ and MSC by Igor
1961     - some fixes on XPath strings and conformance patches by Richard
1962    Jinks
1963     - patch from Aleksey for the ExcC14N specification
1964     - OSF/1 bug fix by Bjorn
1965  
1966  
1967  2.4.20: Apr 15 2002:
1968     - bug fixes: file descriptor leak, XPath, HTML output, DTD validation
1969     - XPath conformance testing by Richard Jinks
1970     - Portability fixes: Solaris, MPE/iX, Windows, OSF/1, python bindings,
1971      libxml.m4
1972  
1973  
1974  2.4.19: Mar 25 2002:
1975     - bug fixes: half a dozen XPath bugs, Validation, ISO-Latin to UTF8
1976      encoder
1977     - portability fixes in the HTTP code
1978     - memory allocation checks using valgrind, and profiling tests
1979     - revamp of the Windows build and Makefiles
1980  
1981  
1982  2.4.18: Mar 18 2002:
1983     - bug fixes: tree, SAX, canonicalization, validation, portability,
1984    XPath
1985     - removed the --with-buffer option it was becoming unmaintainable
1986     - serious cleanup of the Python makefiles
1987     - speedup patch to XPath very effective for DocBook stylesheets
1988     - Fixes for Windows build, cleanup of the documentation
1989  
1990  
1991  2.4.17: Mar 8 2002:
1992     - a lot of bug fixes, including "namespace nodes have no parents in
1993    XPath"
1994     - fixed/improved the Python wrappers, added more examples and more
1995      regression tests, XPath extension functions can now return node-sets
1996     - added the XML Canonicalization support from Aleksey Sanin
1997  
1998  
1999  2.4.16: Feb 20 2002:
2000     - a lot of bug fixes, most of them were triggered by the XML Testsuite
2001      from OASIS and W3C. Compliance has been significantly improved.
2002     - a couple of portability fixes too.
2003  
2004  
2005  2.4.15: Feb 11 2002:
2006     - Fixed the Makefiles, especially the python module ones
2007     - A few bug fixes and cleanup
2008     - Includes cleanup
2009  
2010  
2011  2.4.14: Feb 8 2002:
2012     - Change of License to the MIT
2013      License basically for integration in XFree86 codebase, and removing
2014      confusion around the previous dual-licensing
2015     - added Python bindings, beta software but should already be quite
2016      complete
2017     - a large number of fixes and cleanups, especially for all tree
2018      manipulations
2019     - cleanup of the headers, generation of a reference API definition in
2020    XML
2021  
2022  
2023  2.4.13: Jan 14 2002:
2024     - update of the documentation: John Fleck and Charlie Bozeman
2025     - cleanup of timing code from Justin Fletcher
2026     - fixes for Windows and initial thread support on Win32: Igor and Serguei
2027      Narojnyi
2028     - Cygwin patch from Robert Collins
2029     - added xmlSetEntityReferenceFunc() for Keith Isdale work on xsldbg
2030  
2031  
2032  2.4.12: Dec 7 2001:
2033     - a few bug fixes: thread (Gary Pennington), xmllint (Geert Kloosterman),
2034      XML parser (Robin Berjon), XPointer (Danny Jamshy), I/O cleanups
2035    (robert)
2036     - Eric Lavigne contributed project files for MacOS
2037     - some makefiles cleanups
2038  
2039  
2040  2.4.11: Nov 26 2001:
2041     - fixed a couple of errors in the includes, fixed a few bugs, some code
2042      cleanups
2043     - xmllint man pages improvement by Heiko Rupp
2044     - updated VMS build instructions from John A Fotheringham
2045     - Windows Makefiles updates from Igor
2046  
2047  
2048  2.4.10: Nov 10 2001:
2049     - URI escaping fix (Joel Young)
2050     - added xmlGetNodePath() (for paths or XPointers generation)
2051     - Fixes namespace handling problems when using DTD and validation
2052     - improvements on xmllint: Morus Walter patches for --format and
2053      --encode, Stefan Kost and Heiko Rupp improvements on the --shell
2054     - fixes for xmlcatalog linking pointed by Weiqi Gao
2055     - fixes to the HTML parser
2056  
2057  
2058  2.4.9: Nov 6 2001:
2059     - fixes more catalog bugs
2060     - avoid a compilation problem, improve xmlGetLineNo()
2061  
2062  
2063  2.4.8: Nov 4 2001:
2064     - fixed SGML catalogs broken in previous release, updated xmlcatalog
2065    tool
2066     - fixed a compile errors and some includes troubles.
2067  
2068  
2069  2.4.7: Oct 30 2001:
2070     - exported some debugging interfaces
2071     - serious rewrite of the catalog code
2072     - integrated Gary Pennington thread safety patch, added configure option
2073      and regression tests
2074     - removed an HTML parser bug
2075     - fixed a couple of potentially serious validation bugs
2076     - integrated the SGML DocBook support in xmllint
2077     - changed the nanoftp anonymous login passwd
2078     - some I/O cleanup and a couple of interfaces for Perl wrapper
2079     - general bug fixes
2080     - updated xmllint man page by John Fleck
2081     - some VMS and Windows updates
2082  
2083  
2084  2.4.6: Oct 10 2001:
2085     - added an updated man pages by John Fleck
2086     - portability and configure fixes
2087     - an infinite loop on the HTML parser was removed (William)
2088     - Windows makefile patches from Igor
2089     - fixed half a dozen bugs reported for libxml or libxslt
2090     - updated xmlcatalog to be able to modify SGML super catalogs
2091  
2092  
2093  2.4.5: Sep 14 2001:
2094     - Remove a few annoying bugs in 2.4.4
2095     - forces the HTML serializer to output decimal charrefs since some
2096      version of Netscape can't handle hexadecimal ones
2097  
2098  
2099  1.8.16: Sep 14 2001:
2100     - maintenance release of the old libxml1 branch, couple of bug and
2101      portability fixes
2102  
2103  
2104  2.4.4: Sep 12 2001:
2105     - added --convert to xmlcatalog, bug fixes and cleanups of XML
2106    Catalog
2107     - a few bug fixes and some portability changes
2108     - some documentation cleanups
2109  
2110  
2111  2.4.3:  Aug 23 2001:
2112     - XML Catalog support see the doc
2113     - New NaN/Infinity floating point code
2114     - A few bug fixes
2115  
2116  
2117  2.4.2:  Aug 15 2001:
2118     - adds xmlLineNumbersDefault() to control line number generation
2119     - lot of bug fixes
2120     - the Microsoft MSC projects files should now be up to date
2121     - inheritance of namespaces from DTD defaulted attributes
2122     - fixes a serious potential security bug
2123     - added a --format option to xmllint
2124  
2125  
2126  2.4.1:  July 24 2001:
2127     - possibility to keep line numbers in the tree
2128     - some computation NaN fixes
2129     - extension of the XPath API
2130     - cleanup for alpha and ia64 targets
2131     - patch to allow saving through HTTP PUT or POST
2132  
2133  
2134  2.4.0: July 10 2001:
2135     - Fixed a few bugs in XPath, validation, and tree handling.
2136     - Fixed XML Base implementation, added a couple of examples to the
2137      regression tests
2138     - A bit of cleanup
2139  
2140  
2141  2.3.14: July 5 2001:
2142     - fixed some entities problems and reduce memory requirement when
2143      substituting them
2144     - lots of improvements in the XPath queries interpreter can be
2145      substantially faster
2146     - Makefiles and configure cleanups
2147     - Fixes to XPath variable eval, and compare on empty node set
2148     - HTML tag closing bug fixed
2149     - Fixed an URI reference computation problem when validating
2150  
2151  
2152  2.3.13: June 28 2001:
2153     - 2.3.12 configure.in was broken as well as the push mode XML parser
2154     - a few more fixes for compilation on Windows MSC by Yon Derek
2155  
2156  
2157  1.8.14: June 28 2001:
2158     - Zbigniew Chyla gave a patch to use the old XML parser in push mode
2159     - Small Makefile fix
2160  
2161  
2162  2.3.12: June 26 2001:
2163     - lots of cleanup
2164     - a couple of validation fix
2165     - fixed line number counting
2166     - fixed serious problems in the XInclude processing
2167     - added support for UTF8 BOM at beginning of entities
2168     - fixed a strange gcc optimizer bugs in xpath handling of float, gcc-3.0
2169      miscompile uri.c (William), Thomas Leitner provided a fix for the
2170      optimizer on Tru64
2171     - incorporated Yon Derek and Igor Zlatkovic  fixes and improvements for
2172      compilation on Windows MSC
2173     - update of libxml-doc.el (Felix Natter)
2174     - fixed 2 bugs in URI normalization code
2175  
2176  
2177  2.3.11: June 17 2001:
2178     - updates to trio, Makefiles and configure should fix some portability
2179      problems (alpha)
2180     - fixed some HTML serialization problems (pre, script, and block/inline
2181      handling), added encoding aware APIs, cleanup of this code
2182     - added xmlHasNsProp()
2183     - implemented a specific PI for encoding support in the DocBook SGML
2184      parser
2185     - some XPath fixes (-Infinity, / as a function parameter and namespaces
2186      node selection)
2187     - fixed a performance problem and an error in the validation code
2188     - fixed XInclude routine to implement the recursive behaviour
2189     - fixed xmlFreeNode problem when libxml is included statically twice
2190     - added --version to xmllint for bug reports
2191  
2192  
2193  2.3.10: June 1 2001:
2194     - fixed the SGML catalog support
2195     - a number of reported bugs got fixed, in XPath, iconv detection,
2196      XInclude processing
2197     - XPath string function should now handle unicode correctly
2198  
2199  
2200  2.3.9: May 19 2001:
2201  Lots of bugfixes, and added a basic SGML catalog support:
2202     - HTML push bugfix #54891 and another patch from Jonas Borgstrom
2203     - some serious speed optimization again
2204     - some documentation cleanups
2205     - trying to get better linking on Solaris (-R)
2206     - XPath API cleanup from Thomas Broyer
2207     - Validation bug fixed #54631, added a patch from Gary Pennington, fixed
2208      xmlValidGetValidElements()
2209     - Added an INSTALL file
2210     - Attribute removal added to API: #54433
2211     - added a basic support for SGML catalogs
2212     - fixed xmlKeepBlanksDefault(0) API
2213     - bugfix in xmlNodeGetLang()
2214     - fixed a small configure portability problem
2215     - fixed an inversion of SYSTEM and PUBLIC identifier in HTML document
2216  
2217  
2218  1.8.13: May 14 2001:
2219     - bugfixes release of the old libxml1 branch used by Gnome
2220  
2221  
2222  2.3.8: May 3 2001:
2223     - Integrated an SGML DocBook parser for the Gnome project
2224     - Fixed a few things in the HTML parser
2225     - Fixed some XPath bugs raised by XSLT use, tried to fix the floating
2226      point portability issue
2227     - Speed improvement (8M/s for SAX, 3M/s for DOM, 1.5M/s for
2228      DOM+validation using the XML REC as input and a 700MHz celeron).
2229     - incorporated more Windows cleanup
2230     - added xmlSaveFormatFile()
2231     - fixed problems in copying nodes with entities references (gdome)
2232     - removed some troubles surrounding the new validation module
2233  
2234  
2235  2.3.7: April 22 2001:
2236     - lots of small bug fixes, corrected XPointer
2237     - Non deterministic content model validation support
2238     - added xmlDocCopyNode for gdome2
2239     - revamped the way the HTML parser handles end of tags
2240     - XPath: corrections of namespaces support and number formatting
2241     - Windows: Igor Zlatkovic patches for MSC compilation
2242     - HTML output fixes from P C Chow and William M. Brack
2243     - Improved validation speed sensible for DocBook
2244     - fixed a big bug with ID declared in external parsed entities
2245     - portability fixes, update of Trio from Bjorn Reese
2246  
2247  
2248  2.3.6: April 8 2001:
2249     - Code cleanup using extreme gcc compiler warning options, found and
2250      cleared half a dozen potential problem
2251     - the Eazel team found an XML parser bug
2252     - cleaned up the user of some of the string formatting function. used the
2253      trio library code to provide the one needed when the platform is missing
2254      them
2255     - xpath: removed a memory leak and fixed the predicate evaluation
2256      problem, extended the testsuite and cleaned up the result. XPointer seems
2257      broken ...
2258  
2259  
2260  2.3.5: Mar 23 2001:
2261     - Biggest change is separate parsing and evaluation of XPath expressions,
2262      there is some new APIs for this too
2263     - included a number of bug fixes(XML push parser, 51876, notations,
2264    52299)
2265     - Fixed some portability issues
2266  
2267  
2268  2.3.4: Mar 10 2001:
2269     - Fixed bugs #51860 and #51861
2270     - Added a global variable xmlDefaultBufferSize to allow default buffer
2271      size to be application tunable.
2272     - Some cleanup in the validation code, still a bug left and this part
2273      should probably be rewritten to support ambiguous content model :-\
2274     - Fix a couple of serious bugs introduced or raised by changes in 2.3.3
2275      parser
2276     - Fixed another bug in xmlNodeGetContent()
2277     - Bjorn fixed XPath node collection and Number formatting
2278     - Fixed a loop reported in the HTML parsing
2279     - blank space are reported even if the Dtd content model proves that they
2280      are formatting spaces, this is for XML conformance
2281  
2282  
2283  2.3.3: Mar 1 2001:
2284     - small change in XPath for XSLT
2285     - documentation cleanups
2286     - fix in validation by Gary Pennington
2287     - serious parsing performances improvements
2288  
2289  
2290  2.3.2: Feb 24 2001:
2291     - chasing XPath bugs, found a bunch, completed some TODO
2292     - fixed a Dtd parsing bug
2293     - fixed a bug in xmlNodeGetContent
2294     - ID/IDREF support partly rewritten by Gary Pennington
2295  
2296  
2297  2.3.1: Feb 15 2001:
2298     - some XPath and HTML bug fixes for XSLT
2299     - small extension of the hash table interfaces for DOM gdome2
2300      implementation
2301     - A few bug fixes
2302  
2303  
2304  2.3.0: Feb 8 2001 (2.2.12 was on 25 Jan but I didn't kept track):
2305     - Lots of XPath bug fixes
2306     - Add a mode with Dtd lookup but without validation error reporting for
2307      XSLT
2308     - Add support for text node without escaping (XSLT)
2309     - bug fixes for xmlCheckFilename
2310     - validation code bug fixes from Gary Pennington
2311     - Patch from Paul D. Smith correcting URI path normalization
2312     - Patch to allow simultaneous install of libxml-devel and
2313    libxml2-devel
2314     - the example Makefile is now fixed
2315     - added HTML to the RPM packages
2316     - tree copying bugfixes
2317     - updates to Windows makefiles
2318     - optimization patch from Bjorn Reese
2319  
2320  
2321  2.2.11: Jan 4 2001:
2322     - bunch of bug fixes (memory I/O, xpath, ftp/http, ...)
2323     - added htmlHandleOmittedElem()
2324     - Applied Bjorn Reese's IPV6 first patch
2325     - Applied Paul D. Smith patches for validation of XInclude results
2326     - added XPointer xmlns() new scheme support
2327  
2328  
2329  2.2.10: Nov 25 2000:
2330     - Fix the Windows problems of 2.2.8
2331     - integrate OpenVMS patches
2332     - better handling of some nasty HTML input
2333     - Improved the XPointer implementation
2334     - integrate a number of provided patches
2335  
2336  
2337  2.2.9: Nov 25 2000:
2338     - erroneous release :-(
2339  
2340  
2341  2.2.8: Nov 13 2000:
2342     - First version of XInclude
2343      support
2344     - Patch in conditional section handling
2345     - updated MS compiler project
2346     - fixed some XPath problems
2347     - added an URI escaping function
2348     - some other bug fixes
2349  
2350  
2351  2.2.7: Oct 31 2000:
2352     - added message redirection
2353     - XPath improvements (thanks TOM !)
2354     - xmlIOParseDTD() added
2355     - various small fixes in the HTML, URI, HTTP and XPointer support
2356     - some cleanup of the Makefile, autoconf and the distribution content
2357  
2358  
2359  2.2.6: Oct 25 2000::
2360     - Added an hash table module, migrated a number of internal structure to
2361      those
2362     - Fixed a posteriori validation problems
2363     - HTTP module cleanups
2364     - HTML parser improvements (tag errors, script/style handling, attribute
2365      normalization)
2366     - coalescing of adjacent text nodes
2367     - couple of XPath bug fixes, exported the internal API
2368  
2369  
2370  2.2.5: Oct 15 2000::
2371     - XPointer implementation and testsuite
2372     - Lot of XPath fixes, added variable and functions registration, more
2373      tests
2374     - Portability fixes, lots of enhancements toward an easy Windows build
2375      and release
2376     - Late validation fixes
2377     - Integrated a lot of contributed patches
2378     - added memory management docs
2379     - a performance problem when using large buffer seems fixed
2380  
2381  
2382  2.2.4: Oct 1 2000::
2383     - main XPath problem fixed
2384     - Integrated portability patches for Windows
2385     - Serious bug fixes on the URI and HTML code
2386  
2387  
2388  2.2.3: Sep 17 2000:
2389     - bug fixes
2390     - cleanup of entity handling code
2391     - overall review of all loops in the parsers, all sprintf usage has been
2392      checked too
2393     - Far better handling of larges Dtd. Validating against DocBook XML Dtd
2394      works smoothly now.
2395  
2396  
2397  1.8.10: Sep 6 2000:
2398     - bug fix release for some Gnome projects
2399  
2400  
2401  2.2.2: August 12 2000:
2402     - mostly bug fixes
2403     - started adding routines to access xml parser context options
2404  
2405  
2406  2.2.1: July 21 2000:
2407     - a purely bug fixes release
2408     - fixed an encoding support problem when parsing from a memory block
2409     - fixed a DOCTYPE parsing problem
2410     - removed a bug in the function allowing to override the memory
2411      allocation routines
2412  
2413  
2414  2.2.0: July 14 2000:
2415     - applied a lot of portability fixes
2416     - better encoding support/cleanup and saving (content is now always
2417      encoded in UTF-8)
2418     - the HTML parser now correctly handles encodings
2419     - added xmlHasProp()
2420     - fixed a serious problem with &#38;
2421     - propagated the fix to FTP client
2422     - cleanup, bugfixes, etc ...
2423     - Added a page about libxml Internationalization
2424      support
2425  
2426  
2427  1.8.9:  July 9 2000:
2428     - fixed the spec the RPMs should be better
2429     - fixed a serious bug in the FTP implementation, released 1.8.9 to solve
2430      rpmfind users problem
2431  
2432  
2433  2.1.1: July 1 2000:
2434     - fixes a couple of bugs in the 2.1.0 packaging
2435     - improvements on the HTML parser
2436  
2437  
2438  2.1.0 and 1.8.8: June 29 2000:
2439     - 1.8.8 is mostly a commodity package for upgrading to libxml2 according
2440      to new instructions. It fixes a nasty problem
2441      about &#38; charref parsing
2442     - 2.1.0 also ease the upgrade from libxml v1 to the recent version. it
2443      also contains numerous fixes and enhancements:
2444      
2445        added xmlStopParser() to stop parsing
2446        improved a lot parsing speed when there is large CDATA blocs
2447        includes XPath patches provided by Picdar Technology
2448        tried to fix as much as possible DTD validation and namespace
2449          related problems
2450        output to a given encoding has been added/tested
2451        lot of various fixes
2452      
2453    
2454     - added xmlStopParser() to stop parsing
2455     - improved a lot parsing speed when there is large CDATA blocs
2456     - includes XPath patches provided by Picdar Technology
2457     - tried to fix as much as possible DTD validation and namespace
2458          related problems
2459     - output to a given encoding has been added/tested
2460     - lot of various fixes
2461  
2462  
2463  2.0.0: Apr 12 2000:
2464     - First public release of libxml2. If you are using libxml, it's a good
2465      idea to check the 1.x to 2.x upgrade instructions. NOTE: while initially
2466      scheduled for Apr 3 the release occurred only on Apr 12 due to massive
2467      workload.
2468     - The include are now located under $prefix/include/libxml (instead of
2469      $prefix/include/gnome-xml), they also are referenced by
2470      #include <libxml/xxx.h>
2471      instead of
2472      #include "xxx.h"
2473    
2474     - a new URI module for parsing URIs and following strictly RFC 2396
2475     - the memory allocation routines used by libxml can now be overloaded
2476      dynamically by using xmlMemSetup()
2477     - The previously CVS only tool tester has been renamed
2478      xmllint and is now installed as part of the libxml2
2479      package
2480     - The I/O interface has been revamped. There is now ways to plug in
2481      specific I/O modules, either at the URI scheme detection level using
2482      xmlRegisterInputCallbacks()  or by passing I/O functions when creating a
2483      parser context using xmlCreateIOParserCtxt()
2484     - there is a C preprocessor macro LIBXML_VERSION providing the version
2485      number of the libxml module in use
2486     - a number of optional features of libxml can now be excluded at
2487      configure time (FTP/HTTP/HTML/XPath/Debug)
2488  
2489  
2490  2.0.0beta: Mar 14 2000:
2491     - This is a first Beta release of libxml version 2
2492     - It's available only fromxmlsoft.org
2493      FTP, it's packaged as libxml2-2.0.0beta and available as tar and
2494    RPMs
2495     - This version is now the head in the Gnome CVS base, the old one is
2496      available under the tag LIB_XML_1_X
2497     - This includes a very large set of changes. From a  programmatic point
2498      of view applications should not have to be modified too much, check the
2499      upgrade page
2500     - Some interfaces may changes (especially a bit about encoding).
2501     - the updates includes:
2502      
2503        fix I18N support. ISO-Latin-x/UTF-8/UTF-16 (nearly) seems correctly
2504          handled now
2505        Better handling of entities, especially well-formedness checking
2506          and proper PEref extensions in external subsets
2507        DTD conditional sections
2508        Validation now correctly handle entities content
2509        change
2510          structures to accommodate DOM
2511      
2512    
2513     - fix I18N support. ISO-Latin-x/UTF-8/UTF-16 (nearly) seems correctly
2514          handled now
2515     - Better handling of entities, especially well-formedness checking
2516          and proper PEref extensions in external subsets
2517     - DTD conditional sections
2518     - Validation now correctly handle entities content
2519     - change
2520          structures to accommodate DOM
2521     - Serious progress were made toward compliance, here are the result of the test against the
2522      OASIS testsuite (except the Japanese tests since I don't support that
2523      encoding yet). This URL is rebuilt every couple of hours using the CVS
2524      head version.
2525  
2526  
2527  1.8.7: Mar 6 2000:
2528     - This is a bug fix release:
2529     - It is possible to disable the ignorable blanks heuristic used by
2530      libxml-1.x, a new function  xmlKeepBlanksDefault(0) will allow this. Note
2531      that for adherence to XML spec, this behaviour will be disabled by
2532      default in 2.x . The same function will allow to keep compatibility for
2533      old code.
2534     - Blanks in <a>  </a> constructs are not ignored anymore,
2535      avoiding heuristic is really the Right Way :-\
2536     - The unchecked use of snprintf which was breaking libxml-1.8.6
2537      compilation on some platforms has been fixed
2538     - nanoftp.c nanohttp.c: Fixed '#' and '?' stripping when processing
2539    URIs
2540  
2541  
2542  1.8.6: Jan 31 2000:
2543     - added a nanoFTP transport module, debugged until the new version of rpmfind can use
2544      it without troubles
2545  
2546  
2547  1.8.5: Jan 21 2000:
2548     - adding APIs to parse a well balanced chunk of XML (production [43] content of the
2549      XML spec)
2550     - fixed a hideous bug in xmlGetProp pointed by Rune.Djurhuus@fast.no
2551     - Jody Goldberg <jgoldberg@home.com> provided another patch trying
2552      to solve the zlib checks problems
2553     - The current state in gnome CVS base is expected to ship as 1.8.5 with
2554      gnumeric soon
2555  
2556  
2557  1.8.4: Jan 13 2000:
2558     - bug fixes, reintroduced xmlNewGlobalNs(), fixed xmlNewNs()
2559     - all exit() call should have been removed from libxml
2560     - fixed a problem with INCLUDE_WINSOCK on WIN32 platform
2561     - added newDocFragment()
2562  
2563  
2564  1.8.3: Jan 5 2000:
2565     - a Push interface for the XML and HTML parsers
2566     - a shell-like interface to the document tree (try tester --shell :-)
2567     - lots of bug fixes and improvement added over XMas holidays
2568     - fixed the DTD parsing code to work with the xhtml DTD
2569     - added xmlRemoveProp(), xmlRemoveID() and xmlRemoveRef()
2570     - Fixed bugs in xmlNewNs()
2571     - External entity loading code has been revamped, now it uses
2572      xmlLoadExternalEntity(), some fix on entities processing were added
2573     - cleaned up WIN32 includes of socket stuff
2574  
2575  
2576  1.8.2: Dec 21 1999:
2577     - I got another problem with includes and C++, I hope this issue is fixed
2578      for good this time
2579     - Added a few tree modification functions: xmlReplaceNode,
2580      xmlAddPrevSibling, xmlAddNextSibling, xmlNodeSetName and
2581      xmlDocSetRootElement
2582     - Tried to improve the HTML output with help from Chris Lahey
2583  
2584  
2585  1.8.1: Dec 18 1999:
2586     - various patches to avoid troubles when using libxml with C++ compilers
2587      the "namespace" keyword and C escaping in include files
2588     - a problem in one of the core macros IS_CHAR was corrected
2589     - fixed a bug introduced in 1.8.0 breaking default namespace processing,
2590      and more specifically the Dia application
2591     - fixed a posteriori validation (validation after parsing, or by using a
2592      Dtd not specified in the original document)
2593     - fixed a bug in
2594  
2595  
2596  1.8.0: Dec 12 1999:
2597     - cleanup, especially memory wise
2598     - the parser should be more reliable, especially the HTML one, it should
2599      not crash, whatever the input !
2600     - Integrated various patches, especially a speedup improvement for large
2601      dataset from Carl Nygard,
2602      configure with --with-buffers to enable them.
2603     - attribute normalization, oops should have been added long ago !
2604     - attributes defaulted from DTDs should be available, xmlSetProp() now
2605      does entities escaping by default.
2606  
2607  
2608  1.7.4: Oct 25 1999:
2609     - Lots of HTML improvement
2610     - Fixed some errors when saving both XML and HTML
2611     - More examples, the regression tests should now look clean
2612     - Fixed a bug with contiguous charref
2613  
2614  
2615  1.7.3: Sep 29 1999:
2616     - portability problems fixed
2617     - snprintf was used unconditionally, leading to link problems on system
2618      were it's not available, fixed
2619  
2620  
2621  1.7.1: Sep 24 1999:
2622     - The basic type for strings manipulated by libxml has been renamed in
2623      1.7.1 from CHAR to xmlChar. The reason
2624      is that CHAR was conflicting with a predefined type on Windows. However
2625      on non WIN32 environment, compatibility is provided by the way of  a
2626      #define .
2627     - Changed another error : the use of a structure field called errno, and
2628      leading to troubles on platforms where it's a macro
2629  
2630  
2631  1.7.0: Sep 23 1999:
2632     - Added the ability to fetch remote DTD or parsed entities, see the nanohttp module.
2633     - Added an errno to report errors by another mean than a simple printf
2634      like callback
2635     - Finished ID/IDREF support and checking when validation
2636     - Serious memory leaks fixed (there is now a memory wrapper module)
2637     - Improvement of XPath
2638      implementation
2639     - Added an HTML parser front-end
2640  
2641  Daniel Veillard at 
2642  bugs.html